A large multiethnic genome-wide association study of adult body mass index identifies novel loci

Genetics

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 499-515

  Hoffmann, Thomas J ^a,b   Choquet, Hélène ^c   Yin, Jie ^c   Banda, Yambazi ^a   Kvale, Mark N ^a   Glymour, Maria ^b   Schaefer, Catherine ^c   Risch, Neil ^a,b,c   Jorgenson, Eric ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult BMI; Adult body mass index; Genome wide association study; Obesity

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; SEX FACTOR;

BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 85054434646     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.118.301479     Document Type: Article

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