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Lu, Yingchang;
Day, Felix R.;
Gustafsson, Stefan;
Buchkovich, Martin L.;
Na, Jianbo;
Bataille, Veronique;
Cousminer, Diana L.;
Dastani, Zari;
Drong, Alexander W.;
Esko, Tõnu;
Evans, David M.;
Falchi, Mario;
Feitosa, Mary F.;
Ferreira, Teresa;
Hedman, Åsa K.;
Haring, Robin;
Hysi, Pirro G.;
Iles, Mark M.;
Justice, Anne E.;
Kanoni, Stavroula;
Lagou, Vasiliki;
Li, Rui;
Li, Xin;
Locke, Adam;
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New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk
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- Media type: E-Article
- Title: New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabolic disease risk
- Contributor: Lu, Yingchang; Day, Felix R.; Gustafsson, Stefan; Buchkovich, Martin L.; Na, Jianbo; Bataille, Veronique; Cousminer, Diana L.; Dastani, Zari; Drong, Alexander W.; Esko, Tõnu; Evans, David M.; Falchi, Mario; Feitosa, Mary F.; Ferreira, Teresa; Hedman, Åsa K.; Haring, Robin; Hysi, Pirro G.; Iles, Mark M.; Justice, Anne E.; Kanoni, Stavroula; Lagou, Vasiliki; Li, Rui; Li, Xin; Locke, Adam; [...]
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Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2016
- Published in: Nature Communications
- Language: English
- DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10495
- ISSN: 2041-1723
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- Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of adiposity and its links to cardiometabolic disease risk, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of body fat percentage (BF%) in up to 100,716 individuals. Twelve loci reached genome-wide significance (<jats:italic>P</jats:italic><5 × 10<jats:sup>−8</jats:sup>), of which eight were previously associated with increased overall adiposity (BMI, BF%) and four (in or near <jats:italic>COBLL1/GRB14</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>IGF2BP1</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>PLA2G6</jats:italic>, <jats:italic>CRTC1</jats:italic>) were novel associations with BF%. Seven loci showed a larger effect on BF% than on BMI, suggestive of a primary association with adiposity, while five loci showed larger effects on BMI than on BF%, suggesting association with both fat and lean mass. In particular, the loci more strongly associated with BF% showed distinct cross-phenotype association signatures with a range of cardiometabolic traits revealing new insights in the link between adiposity and disease risk.</jats:p>
- Access State: Open Access