Genome-wide population-based association study of extremely overweight young adults--the GOYA study.

Genome-wide population-based association study of extremely overweight young adults--the GOYA study.

<h4>Background</h4>Thirty-two common variants associated with body mass index (BMI) have been identified in genome-wide association studies, explaining ∼1.45% of BMI variation in general population cohorts. We performed a genome-wide association study in a sample of young adults enriched...

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Main Authors: Lavinia Paternoster, David M Evans, Ellen Aagaard Nohr, Claus Holst, Valerie Gaborieau, Paul Brennan, Anette Prior Gjesing, Niels Grarup, Daniel R Witte, Torben Jørgensen, Allan Linneberg, Torsten Lauritzen, Anelli Sandbaek, Torben Hansen, Oluf Pedersen, Katherine S Elliott, John P Kemp, Beate St Pourcain, George McMahon, Diana Zelenika, Jörg Hager, Mark Lathrop, Nicholas J Timpson, George Davey Smith, Thorkild I A Sørensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0024303&type=printable
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