Multiethnic genome-wide meta-analysis of ectopic fat depots identifies loci associated with adipocyte development and differentiation

Nature Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 125-130

  Chu, Audrey Y ^a,b,aj   Deng, Xuan ^c   Fisher, Virginia A ^c   Drong, Alexander ^d   Zhang, Yang ^b   Feitosa, Mary F ^e   Liu, Ching Ti ^c   Weeks, Olivia ^b   Choh, Audrey C ^f   Duan, Qing ^g   Dyer, Thomas D ^h   Eicher, John D ^a   Guo, Xiuqing ⁱ   Heard Costa, Nancy L ^c   Kacprowski, Tim ^j,k   Kent, Jack W ^l   Lange, Leslie A ^g   Liu, Xinggang ^m   Lohman, Kurt ⁿ   Lu, Lingyi ⁿ   Mahajan, Anubha ^d   O'Connell, Jeffrey R ^m   Parihar, Ankita ^m   Peralta, Juan M ^h   Smith, Albert V ^o,p   Zhang, Yi ^q   Homuth, Georg ^j   Kissebah, Ahmed H ^q   Kullberg, Joel ^r   Laqua, René ^s   Launer, Lenore J ^t   Nauck, Matthias ^j,k   Olivier, Michael ^l,q   Peyser, Patricia A ^u   Terry, James G ^v   Wojczynski, Mary K ^e   Yao, Jie ⁱ   Bielak, Lawrence F ^u   Blangero, John ^h   Borecki, Ingrid B ^e   Bowden, Donald W ^n,w   Carr, John Jeffrey ^v   Czerwinski, Stefan A ^x   Ding, Jingzhong ⁿ   Friedrich, Nele ^k,l   Gudnason, Vilmunder ^o,p   Harris, Tamara B ^t   Ingelsson, Erik ^r,y   Johnson, Andrew D ^a   Kardia, Sharon L R ^u   Langefeld, Carl D ⁿ   Lind, Lars ^r   Liu, Yongmei ⁿ   Mitchell, Braxton D ^m,z   Morris, Andrew P ^d,aa   Mosley, Thomas H ^ab   Rotter, Jerome I ⁱ   Shuldiner, Alan R ^m   Towne, Bradford ^f   Völzke, Henry ^j,k,ac   Wallaschofski, Henri ^j   Wilson, James G ^ad   Allison, Matthew ^ae   Lindgren, Cecilia M ^af   Goessling, Wolfram ^b,ag,ah,ai   Cupples, L Adrienne ^a,c   Steinhauser, Matthew L ^b,ai   Fox, Caroline S ^a,b,aj   more..

^a FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

ⁱ HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^k DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

^l SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

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

ⁿ WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^o ICELANDIC HEART ASSOCIATION   (Iceland)

^p UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^q MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^r UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^s UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^t NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^u UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^v VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^w WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT BROWNSVILLE   (United States)

^y STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^z BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^ac GERMAN CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH DZD   (Germany)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^af UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ag HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^ah DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

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

^aj MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATAXIN 1; GENETIC MARKER;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOGENESIS; ADIPOSE DERIVED STEM CELL; AFRICAN; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL MATURATION; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBF1 GENE; ENSA GENE; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GRAMD3 GENE; GSDMB GENE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RREB1 GENE; SAMPLE SIZE; UBE2E2 GENE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CYTOLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; META ANALYSIS; METABOLISM; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADIPOCYTES; ANIMALS; BODY FAT DISTRIBUTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COHORT STUDIES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OBESITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 85002253431     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3738     Document Type: Article

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