1. New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution
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Shungin, Dmitry, Winkler, Thomas W., Croteau-Chonka, Damien C., Ferreira, Teresa, Lockes, Adam E., Maegi, Reedik, Strawbridge, Rona J., Pers, Tune H., Fischer, Krista, Justice, Anne E., Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie, Wu, Joseph M. W., Buchkovich, Martin L., Heard-Costa, Nancy L., Roman, Tamara S., Drong, Alexander W., Song, Ci, Gustafsson, Stefan, Day, Felix R., Esko, Tonu, Fall, Tove, Kutalik, Zoltan, Luan, Jian'an, Randall, Joshua C., Scherag, Andre, Vedantam, Sailaja, Wood, Andrew R., Chen, Jin, Fehrmann, Rudolf, Karjalainen, Juha, Kahali, Bratati, Liu, Ching-Ti, Schmidt, Ellen M., Absher, Devin, Amin, Najaf, Anderson, Denise, Beekman, Marian, Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L., Buyske, Steven, Demirkan, Ayse, Ehret, Georg B., Feitosa, Mary F., Goel, Anuj, Jackson, Anne U., Johnson, Toby, Kleber, Marcus E., ADIPOGEN Consortium, CARDIOGRAMplusC4D Consortium, CKDGen Consortium, GEFOS Consortium, GENIE Consortium, GLGC, ICBP, Int Endogene Consortium, LifeLines Cohort Study, MAGIC Investigators, MuTHER Consortium, PAGE Consortium, and ReproGen Consortium
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COMMON SNPS ,SEXUAL-DIMORPHISM ,SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI ,FALSE DISCOVERY ,GLYCEMIC TRAITS ,ADIPOGENIC DIFFERENTIATION ,GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION ,ABDOMINAL ADIPOSITY ,HUMAN HEIGHT ,MESENCHYMAL STEM-CELLS - Abstract
Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of body fat distribution and its molecular links to cardiometabolic traits, here we conduct genome-wide association meta-analyses of traits related to waist and hip circumferences in up to 224,459 individuals. We identify 49 loci (33 new) associated with waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index (BMI), and an additional 19 loci newly associated with related waist and hip circumference measures (P
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- 2015