Contribution of common non-synonymous variants in PCSK1 to body mass index variation and risk of obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis with evidence from up to 331 175 individuals

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3582-3594

  Nead, Kevin T ^a,b   Li, Aihua ^c   Wehner, Mackenzie R ^b   Neupane, Binod ^c   Gustafsson, Stefan ^ao   Butterworth, Adam ^a   Engert, James C ^ap   Darlene Davis, A ^c   Hegele, Robert A ^c,d   Miller, Ruby ^c   Den Hoed, Marcel ^e,f   Khaw, Kay Tee ^a   Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O ^e,g   Wareham, Nick ^e   Edwards, Todd L ^h   Hallmans, Göran ^a   Varga, Tibor V ^d   Kardia, Sharon L R ⁱ   Smith, Jennifer A ⁱ   Zhao, Wei ⁱ   Faul, Jessica D ^j   Weir, David ^j   Mi, Jie ^k   Xi, Bo ^l   Quinteros, Samuel Canizales ^m   Cooper, Cyrus ^m,n,o   Sayer, Avan Aihie ^m   Jameson, Karen ^m   Grøntved, Anders ^p   Fornage, Myriam ^q   Sidney, Stephen ^r   Hanis, Craig L ^s   Highland, Heather M ^s   Häring, Hans Ulrich ^t,u   Heni, Martin ^t,u   Lasky Su, Jessica ^v,w   Weiss, Scott T ^v,w   Gerhard, Glenn S ^x   Still, Christopher ^y   Melka, Melkaey M ^z   Pausova, Zdenka ^z   Paus, Tomáš ^z   Grant, Struan F A ^aa,ab   Hakonarson, Hakon ^aa,ab   Arlen Price, R ^ac   Wang, Kai ^q,ad   Scherag, Andre ^ae   Hebebrand, Johannes ^af   Hinney, Anke ^af   Franks, Paul W ^a,h,af   Frayling, Timothy M ^ag   McCarthy, Mark I ^ah   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^ai,aj,ak   Loos, Ruth J ^e,al   Ingelsson, Erik ^ao   Gerstein, Hertzel C ^c,am,an   Yusuf, Salim ^c,am,an   Beyene, Joseph ^c   Anand, Sonia S ^c,am,an   Meyre, David ^c,an,ao   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^f Six Nations Health Services   (Canada)

^g ROBARTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

ⁱ University of Copenhagen   (Denmark)

^j VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^l LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

ⁿ CAPITAL INSTITUTE OF PEDIATRICS   (China)

^o SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^p UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^q UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^r SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^s UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^t UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^u UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^v KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^y GERMAN CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH DZD   (Germany)

^z BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^aa PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ab Geisinger Obesity Institute   (United States)

^ac HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^ae CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^af UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ah JENA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^aj HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^al UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

^an BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^ao HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^ap HAMILTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; DATA EXTRACTION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EMBASE; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MEDLINE; META ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; WEB OF SCIENCE; ALLELE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; ODDS RATIO; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

PCSK1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 1;

ALLELES; BODY MASS INDEX; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROPROTEIN CONVERTASE 1;

EID: 84930456827     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddv097     Document Type: Article

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