Whole genome sequencing analysis of body mass index identifies novel African ancestry-specific risk allele

Abstract Obesity is a major public health crisis associated with high mortality rates. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) investigating body mass index (BMI) have largely relied on imputed data from European individuals. This study leveraged whole-genome sequencing (WGS) data from 88,87...

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Main Authors: Xinruo Zhang, Jennifer A. Brody, Mariaelisa Graff, Heather M. Highland, Nathalie Chami, Hanfei Xu, Zhe Wang, Kendra R. Ferrier, Geetha Chittoor, Navya Shilpa Josyula, Mariah Meyer, Shreyash Gupta, Xihao Li, Zilin Li, Matthew A. Allison, Diane M. Becker, Lawrence F. Bielak, Joshua C. Bis, Meher Preethi Boorgula, Donald W. Bowden, Jai G. Broome, Erin J. Buth, Christopher S. Carlson, Kyong-Mi Chang, Sameer Chavan, Yen-Feng Chiu, Lee-Ming Chuang, Matthew P. Conomos, Dawn L. DeMeo, Mengmeng Du, Ravindranath Duggirala, Celeste Eng, Alison E. Fohner, Barry I. Freedman, Melanie E. Garrett, Xiuqing Guo, Chris Haiman, Benjamin D. Heavner, Bertha Hidalgo, James E. Hixson, Yuk-Lam Ho, Brian D. Hobbs, Donglei Hu, Qin Hui, Chii-Min Hwu, Rebecca D. Jackson, Deepti Jain, Rita R. Kalyani, Sharon L. R. Kardia, Tanika N. Kelly, Ethan M. Lange, Michael LeNoir, Changwei Li, Loic Le Marchand, Merry-Lynn N. McDonald, Caitlin P. McHugh, Alanna C. Morrison, Take Naseri, NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium, Jeffrey O’Connell, Christopher J. O’Donnell, Nicholette D. Palmer, James S. Pankow, James A. Perry, Ulrike Peters, Michael H. Preuss, D. C. Rao, Elizabeth A. Regan, Sefuiva M. Reupena, Dan M. Roden, Jose Rodriguez-Santana, Colleen M. Sitlani, Jennifer A. Smith, Hemant K. Tiwari, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Zeyuan Wang, Daniel E. Weeks, Jennifer Wessel, Kerri L. Wiggins, Lynne R. Wilkens, Peter W. F. Wilson, Lisa R. Yanek, Zachary T. Yoneda, Wei Zhao, Sebastian Zöllner, Donna K. Arnett, Allison E. Ashley-Koch, Kathleen C. Barnes, John Blangero, Eric Boerwinkle, Esteban G. Burchard, April P. Carson, Daniel I. Chasman, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Joanne E. Curran, Myriam Fornage, Victor R. Gordeuk, Jiang He, Susan R. Heckbert, Lifang Hou, Marguerite R. Irvin, Charles Kooperberg, Ryan L. Minster, Braxton D. Mitchell, Mehdi Nouraie, Bruce M. Psaty, Laura M. Raffield, Alexander P. Reiner, Stephen S. Rich, Jerome I. Rotter, M. Benjamin Shoemaker, Nicholas L. Smith, Kent D. Taylor, Marilyn J. Telen, Scott T. Weiss, Yingze Zhang, Nancy Heard-Costa, Yan V. Sun, Xihong Lin, L. Adrienne Cupples, Leslie A. Lange, Ching-Ti Liu, Ruth J. F. Loos, Kari E. North, Anne E. Justice
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-58420-2
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