FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index

Nature

Volumn 490, Issue 7419, 2012, Pages 267-273

  Yang, Jian ^a,b   Loos, Ruth J F ^c,d   Powell, Joseph E ^a,b   Medland, Sarah E ^b   Speliotes, Elizabeth K ^e,f   Chasman, Daniel I ^g,h   Rose, Lynda M ^g   Thorleifsson, Gudmar ⁱ   Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur ⁱ   Mägi, Reedik ^j,k   Waite, Lindsay ^l   Vernon Smith, Albert ^m,n   Yerges Armstrong, Laura M ^o   Monda, Keri L ^p   Hadley, David ^q   Mahajan, Anubha ^k   Li, Guo ^r   Kapur, Karen ^s,t   Vitart, Veronique ^u   Huffman, Jennifer E ^u   Wang, Sophie R ^h,v,w   Palmer, Cameron ^v,w   Esko, Tõnu ^j   Fischer, Krista ^j   Hua Zhao, Jing ^c   Demirkan, Ayśe ^x   Isaacs, Aaron ^x   Feitosa, Mary F ^y   Luan, Jian'An ^c   Heard Costa, Nancy L ^z   White, Charles ^z   Jackson, Anne U ^f   Preuss, Michael ^aa,ab   Ziegler, Andreas ^ab   Eriksson, Joel ^ac   Kutalik, Zoltán ^t   Frau, Francesca ^ad   Nolte, Ilja M ^ae   Van Vliet Ostaptchouk, Jana V ^ae   Hottenga, Jouke Jan ^af   Jacobs, Kevin B ^ag   Verweij, Niek ^ae   Goel, Anuj ^k,ah   Medina Gomez, Carolina ^x,ai   Estrada, Karol ^x,ai   Bragg Gresham, Jennifer Lynn ^f   Sanna, Serena ^aj   Sidore, Carlo ^f,ak   Tyrer, Jonathan ^al   Teumer, Alexander ^am   Prokopenko, Inga ^k,an   Mangino, Massimo ^ao   Lindgren, Cecilia M ^k   Assimes, Themistocles L ^ap   Shuldiner, Alan R ^o,aq   Hui, Jennie ^ar   Beilby, John P ^ar   McArdle, Wendy L ^as   Hall, Per ^at   Haritunians, Talin ^au   Zgaga, Lina ^av,aw   Kolcic, Ivana ^ax   Polasek, Ozren ^ax   Zemunik, Tatijana ^ax   Oostra, Ben A ^x   Juhani Junttila, M ^ay   Grönberg, Henrik ^at   Schreiber, Stefan ^az   Peters, Annette ^ba,bb   Hicks, Andrew A ^bc   Stephens, Jonathan ^al,bd   Foad, Nicola S ^al,bd   Laitinen, Jaana ^be   Pouta, Anneli ^ay,bf   Kaakinen, Marika ^ay   Willemsen, Gonneke ^af   Vink, Jacqueline M ^af   Wild, Sarah H ^av   Navis, Gerjan ^ae   Asselbergs, Folkert W ^bg   Homuth, Georg ^am   John, Ulrich ^am   Iribarren, Carlos ^bh   Harris, Tamara ^bi   Launer, Lenore ^bi   Gudnason, Vilmundur ^m,n   O'Connell, Jeffrey R ^o   Boerwinkle, Eric ^bj   Cadby, Gemma ^bk   Palmer, Lyle J ^bk   James, Alan L ^ar   Musk, Arthur W ^ar   Ingelsson, Erik ^at   Psaty, Bruce M ^r,bl   Beckmann, Jacques S ^s,bm   Waeber, Gerard ^bm   Vollenweider, Peter ^bm   Hayward, Caroline ^u   Wright, Alan F ^u   Rudan, Igor ^av,ax   Groop, Leif C ^bn   Metspalu, Andres ^j   Tee Khaw, Kay ^al   Van Duijn, Cornelia M ^x   Borecki, Ingrid B ^y   Province, Michael A ^y   Wareham, Nicholas J ^c   Tardif, Jean Claude ^bo,bp   Huikuri, Heikki V ^ay   Adrienne Cupples, L ^z   Atwood, Larry D ^z   Fox, Caroline S ^z   Boehnke, Michael ^f   Collins, Francis S ^bq   Mohlke, Karen L ^br   Erdmann, Jeanette ^aa   Schunkert, Heribert ^aa   Hengstenberg, Christian ^bs   Stark, Klaus ^bs   Lorentzon, Mattias ^ac   Ohlsson, Claes ^ac   Cusi, Daniele ^ad   Staessen, Jan A ^bt,bu   Van Der Klauw, Melanie M ^ae   Pramstaller, Peter P ^aa,bc,bv   Kathiresan, Sekar ^h,z,bw,bx   Jolley, Jennifer D ^al,bd   Ripatti, Samuli ^bf,by,bz   Jarvelin, Marjo Riitta ^ay,bf,ca   De Geus, Eco J C ^af   Boomsma, Dorret I ^af   Penninx, Brenda ^ae   Wilson, James F ^av   Campbell, Harry ^av   Chanock, Stephen J ^cb   Van Der Harst, Pim ^ae   Hamsten, Anders ^at,cc   Watkins, Hugh ^k,ah   Hofman, Albert ^x,ai   Witteman, Jacqueline C ^x,ai   Carola Zillikens, M ^x   Uitterlinden, André G ^x,ai   Rivadeneira, Fernando ^x,ai   Kiemeney, Lambertus A ^cd   Vermeulen, Sita H ^cd   Abecasis, Goncalo R ^f   Schlessinger, David ^ce   Schipf, Sabine ^am   Stumvoll, Michael ^cf   Tönjes, Anke ^cf   Spector, Tim D ^ao   North, Kari E ^p   Lettre, Guillaume ^bo,bp   McCarthy, Mark I ^k,an,cg   Berndt, Sonja I ^cb   Heath, Andrew C ^y   Madden, Pamela A F ^y   Nyholt, Dale R ^b   Montgomery, Grant W ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^b   McKnight, Barbara ^ch   Strachan, David P ^q   Hill, William G ^u   Snieder, Harold ^ae   Ridker, Paul M ^g,h   Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur ^i,n   Stefansson, Kari ^i,n   Frayling, Timothy M ^ci   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^h,v,w   Goddard, Michael E ^cj,ck   Visscher, Peter M ^a,b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c MRC EPIDEMIOLOGY UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^k UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^l HUDSONALPHA INSTITUTE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^m ICELANDIC HEART ASSOCIATION   (Iceland)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^o UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^p The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^q ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^t SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^u UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^v BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^w BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^x ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^y WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^z BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^ab Institut fur Biomedizinische Optik   (Germany)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^ae UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^af VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^ag SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ai Netherlands Genomics Initiative   (Netherlands)

^aj Milan Unit   (Italy)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^al UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^am UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^an UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ao KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ap STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^aq BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^ar UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^as UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^at KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^au CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^av UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^aw UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^ax UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^ay UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^az UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^ba German Center for Diabetes Research   (Germany)

^bb Munich Heart Alliance   (Germany)

^bc University of Lubeck   (Italy)

^bd NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^be FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^bf NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^bg UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^bh KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^bi NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^bj UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^bk ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH   (Canada)

^bl CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^bm LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^bn LUND UNIVERSITY DIABETES CENTRE   (Sweden)

^bo UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^bp MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^bq NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^br UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^bs Klinik und Poliklinik fur Innere Medizin II   (Germany)

^bt UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^bu MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^bv General Central Hospital   (Italy)

^bw MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^bx MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^by UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^bz WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^ca IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^cb NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^cc Department of Medicine Solna   (Sweden)

^cd RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^ce NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^cf UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^cg CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^ch UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^ci UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^cj UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^ck Biosciences Research Division   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MEDICINE; META-ANALYSIS; METHYLATION; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; DNA METHYLATION; FTO GENE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEINS; REPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 84867330691     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature11401     Document Type: Article

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