The association of a SNP upstream of INSIG2 with body mass index is reproduced in several but not all cohorts.

A SNP upstream of the INSIG2 gene, rs7566605, was recently found to be associated with obesity as measured by body mass index (BMI) by Herbert and colleagues. The association between increased BMI and homozygosity for the minor allele was first observed in data from a genome-wide association scan of...

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Published in:	PLoS Genetics
Main Authors:	Helen N Lyon, Valur Emilsson, Anke Hinney, Iris M Heid, Jessica Lasky-Su, Xiaofeng Zhu, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Steinunn Gunnarsdottir, G Bragi Walters, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Augustine Kong, Jeffrey Gulcher, Thuy Trang Nguyen, André Scherag, Arne Pfeufer, Thomas Meitinger, Günter Brönner, Winfried Rief, Manuel E Soto-Quiros, Lydiana Avila, Barbara Klanderman, Benjamin A Raby, Edwin K Silverman, Scott T Weiss, Nan Laird, Xiao Ding, Leif Groop, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Bo Isomaa, Kristina Bengtsson, Johannah L Butler, Richard S Cooper, Caroline S Fox, Christopher J O'Donnell, Caren Vollmert, Juan C Celedón, H Erich Wichmann, Johannes Hebebrand, Kari Stefansson, Christoph Lange, Joel N Hirschhorn
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-04-01
Online Access:	https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.0030061&type=printable