A genome-wide association study reveals variants in ARL15 that influence adiponectin levels.

The adipocyte-derived protein adiponectin is highly heritable and inversely associated with risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and coronary heart disease (CHD). We meta-analyzed 3 genome-wide association studies for circulating adiponectin levels (n = 8,531) and sought validation of the lead sin...

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Main Authors: J Brent Richards, Dawn Waterworth, Stephen O'Rahilly, Marie-France Hivert, Ruth J F Loos, John R B Perry, Toshiko Tanaka, Nicholas John Timpson, Robert K Semple, Nicole Soranzo, Kijoung Song, Nuno Rocha, Elin Grundberg, Josée Dupuis, Jose C Florez, Claudia Langenberg, Inga Prokopenko, Richa Saxena, Robert Sladek, Yurii Aulchenko, David Evans, Gerard Waeber, Jeanette Erdmann, Mary-Susan Burnett, Naveed Sattar, Joseph Devaney, Christina Willenborg, Aroon Hingorani, Jaquelin C M Witteman, Peter Vollenweider, Beate Glaser, Christian Hengstenberg, Luigi Ferrucci, David Melzer, Klaus Stark, John Deanfield, Janina Winogradow, Martina Grassl, Alistair S Hall, Josephine M Egan, John R Thompson, Sally L Ricketts, Inke R König, Wibke Reinhard, Scott Grundy, H-Erich Wichmann, Phil Barter, Robert Mahley, Y Antero Kesaniemi, Daniel J Rader, Muredach P Reilly, Stephen E Epstein, Alexandre F R Stewart, Cornelia M Van Duijn, Heribert Schunkert, Keith Burling, Panos Deloukas, Tomi Pastinen, Nilesh J Samani, Ruth McPherson, George Davey Smith, Timothy M Frayling, Nicholas J Wareham, James B Meigs, Vincent Mooser, Tim D Spector, GIANT Consortium
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-12-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2781107?pdf=render