Common variants at CDKAL1 and KLF9 are associated with body mass index in east Asian populations

Nature Genetics

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 302-306

  Okada, Yukinori ^a,b   Kubo, Michiaki ^a   Ohmiya, Hiroko ^a   Takahashi, Atsushi ^a   Kumasaka, Natsuhiko ^a   Hosono, Naoya ^a   Maeda, Shiro ^a   Wen, Wanqing ^c   Dorajoo, Rajkumar ^d,e   Go, Min Jin ^f   Zheng, Wei ^c   Kato, Norihiro ^g   Wu, Jer Yuarn ^h,i   Lu, Qi ^j   Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuhiko ^b   Nakamura, Yusuke ^k   Kamatani, Naoyuki ^a   Tanaka, Toshihiro ^a  

^a RIKEN   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^e HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f Korea National Institute of Health   (South Korea)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR GLOBAL HEALTH AND MEDICINE   (Japan)

^h INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

ⁱ CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^j HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE MORPHOGENETIC PROTEIN 2; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MYOSTATIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BODY MASS; CDKAL1 GENE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INFANT; KLF9 GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POPULATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BODY MASS INDEX; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE 5; FAR EAST; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; KRUPPEL-LIKE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84862822438     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.1086     Document Type: Article

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