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PROVIDER: EGAD00010000594 | EGA |
REPOSITORIES: EGA
Wheeler Eleanor E Huang Ni N Bochukova Elena G EG Keogh Julia M JM Lindsay Sarah S Garg Sumedha S Henning Elana E Blackburn Hannah H Loos Ruth J F RJ Wareham Nick J NJ O'Rahilly Stephen S Hurles Matthew E ME Barroso Inês I Farooqi I Sadaf IS
Nature genetics 20130407 5
Common and rare variants associated with body mass index (BMI) and obesity account for <5% of the variance in BMI. We performed SNP and copy number variation (CNV) association analyses in 1,509 children with obesity at the extreme tail (>3 s.d. from the mean) of the BMI distribution and 5,380 controls. Evaluation of 29 SNPs (P < 1 × 10(-5)) in an additional 971 severely obese children and 1,990 controls identified 4 new loci associated with severe obesity (LEPR, PRKCH, PACS1 and RMST). A previou ...[more]