Genome-wide association for abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adipose reveals a novel locus for visceral fat in women

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Fox, Caroline S ^a,b   Liu, Yongmei ^c   White, Charles C ^a,d   Feitosa, Mary ^e   Smith, Albert V ^f,g   Heard Costa, Nancy ^a,d   Lohman, Kurt ^c   Johnson, Andrew D ^a   Foster, Meredith C ^a   Greenawalt, Danielle M ^h   Griffin, Paula ^a,d   Ding, Jinghong ^c   Newman, Anne B ⁱ   Tylavsky, Fran ^j   Miljkovic, Iva ⁱ   Kritchevsky, Stephen B ^c   Launer, Lenore ^k   Garcia, Melissa ^k   Eiriksdottir, Gudny ^f   Carr, J Jeffrey ^c   Gudnason, Vilmunder ^f,g   Harris, Tamara B ^k   Cupples, L Adrienne ^a,d   Borecki, Ingrid B ^e   more..

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f ICELANDIC HEART ASSOCIATION   (Iceland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^h MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^k NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; BODY MASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; FTO GENE; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRAABDOMINAL FAT; LIPID ANALYSIS; LYPLAL1 GENE; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THNSL2 GENE; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO; ADULT; AGED; CAUCASIAN; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE MAP; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

CYTOKINE; FTO PROTEIN, HUMAN; LYPLAL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; PROTEIN; SOFAT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CYTOKINES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPMAP PROJECT; HUMANS; INTRA-ABDOMINAL FAT; LYSOPHOSPHOLIPASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT, ABDOMINAL;

EID: 84863684047     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002695     Document Type: Article

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