Discovery and fine-mapping of adiposity loci using high density imputation of genome-wide association studies in individuals of African ancestry: African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >300 loci associated with measures of adiposity including body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-hip ratio (adjusted for BMI, WHRadjBMI), but few have been identified through screening of the African ancestry genomes. We performed large scale met...

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Main Authors: Ng, Maggie C. Y., Graff, Mariaelisa, Lu, Yingchang, Justice, Anne E., Mudgal, Poorva, Liu, Ching-Ti, Young, Kristin, Yanek, Lisa R., Feitosa, Mary F., Wojczynski, Mary K., Rand, Kristin, Brody, Jennifer A., Cade, Brian E., Dimitrov, Latchezar, Duan, Qing, Guo, Xiuqing, Lange, Leslie A., Nalls, Michael A., Okut, Hayrettin, Tajuddin, Salman M., Tayo, Bamidele O., Vedantam, Sailaja, Bradfield, Jonathan P., Chen, Guanjie, Chen, Wei-Min, Chesi, Alessandra, Irvin, Marguerite R., Padhukasahasram, Badri, Smith, Jennifer A., Zheng, Wei, Allison, Matthew A., Ambrosone, Christine B., Bandera, Elisa V., Bartz, Traci M., Berndt, Sonja I., Bernstein, Leslie, Blot, William J., Bottinger, Erwin P., Carpten, John, Chanock, Stephen J., Chen, Yii-Der Ida, Conti, David V., Cooper, Richard S., Fornage, Myriam, Freedman, Barry I., Garcia, Melissa, Goodman, Phyllis J., Hsu, Yu-Han H., Hu, Jennifer, Huff, Chad D., Ingles, Sue A., John, Esther M., Kittles, Rick, Klein, Eric, Li, Jin, McKnight, Barbara, Nayak, Uma, Nemesure, Barbara, Ogunniyi, Adesola, Olshan, Andrew, Press, Michael F., Rohde, Rebecca, Rybicki, Benjamin A., Salako, Babatunde, Sanderson, Maureen, Shao, Yaming, Siscovick, David S., Stanford, Janet L., Stevens, Victoria L., Stram, Alex, Strom, Sara S., Vaidya, Dhananjay, Witte, John S., Yao, Jie, Zhu, Xiaofeng, Ziegler, Regina G., Zonderman, Alan B., Adeyemo, Adebowale, Ambs, Stefan, Cushman, Mary, Faul, Jessica D., Hakonarson, Hakon, Levin, Albert M., Nathanson, Katherine L., Ware, Erin B., Weir, David R., Zhao, Wei, Zhi, Degui, Arnett, Donna K., Grant, Struan F. A., Kardia, Sharon L. R., Oloapde, Olufunmilayo I., Rao, D. C., Rotimi, Charles N., Sale, Michele M., Williams, L. Keoki, Zemel, Babette S., Becker, Diane M., Borecki, Ingrid B., Evans, Michele K., Harris, Tamara B., Hirschhorn, Joel N., Li, Yun, Patel, Sanjay R., Psaty, Bruce M., Rotter, Jerome I., Wilson, James G., Bowden, Donald W., Cupples, L. Adrienne, Haiman, Christopher A., Loos, Ruth J. F., North, Kari E.
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Dept Surg, Div Urol
Language:en
Published: PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/624640
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