@article {10785, title = {Genetic analysis of over 1 million people identifies 535 new loci associated with blood pressure traits.}, journal = {Nat Genet}, volume = {50}, year = {2018}, month = {2018 Oct}, pages = {1412-1425}, abstract = {

High blood pressure is a highly heritable and modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease. We report the largest genetic association study of blood pressure traits (systolic, diastolic and pulse pressure) to date in over 1 million people of European ancestry. We identify 535 novel blood pressure loci that not only offer new biological insights into blood pressure regulation but also highlight shared genetic architecture between blood pressure and lifestyle exposures. Our findings identify new biological pathways for blood pressure regulation with potential for improved cardiovascular disease prevention in the future.

}, issn = {1546-1718}, doi = {10.1038/s41588-018-0205-x}, author = {Evangelou, Evangelos and Warren, Helen R and Mosen-Ansorena, David and Mifsud, Borbala and Pazoki, Raha and Gao, He and Ntritsos, Georgios and Dimou, Niki and Cabrera, Claudia P and Karaman, Ibrahim and Ng, Fu Liang and Evangelou, Marina and Witkowska, Katarzyna and Tzanis, Evan and Hellwege, Jacklyn N and Giri, Ayush and Velez Edwards, Digna R and Sun, Yan V and Cho, Kelly and Gaziano, J Michael and Wilson, Peter W F and Tsao, Philip S and Kovesdy, Csaba P and Esko, T{\~o}nu and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and Milani, Lili and Almgren, Peter and Boutin, Thibaud and Debette, St{\'e}phanie and Ding, Jun and Giulianini, Franco and Holliday, Elizabeth G and Jackson, Anne U and Li-Gao, Ruifang and Lin, Wei-Yu and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and Mangino, Massimo and Oldmeadow, Christopher and Prins, Bram Peter and Qian, Yong and Sargurupremraj, Muralidharan and Shah, Nabi and Surendran, Praveen and Th{\'e}riault, S{\'e}bastien and Verweij, Niek and Willems, Sara M and Zhao, Jing-Hua and Amouyel, Philippe and Connell, John and de Mutsert, Ren{\'e}e and Doney, Alex S F and Farrall, Martin and Menni, Cristina and Morris, Andrew D and Noordam, Raymond and Par{\'e}, Guillaume and Poulter, Neil R and Shields, Denis C and Stanton, Alice and Thom, Simon and Abecasis, Goncalo and Amin, Najaf and Arking, Dan E and Ayers, Kristin L and Barbieri, Caterina M and Batini, Chiara and Bis, Joshua C and Blake, Tineka and Bochud, Murielle and Boehnke, Michael and Boerwinkle, Eric and Boomsma, Dorret I and Bottinger, Erwin P and Braund, Peter S and Brumat, Marco and Campbell, Archie and Campbell, Harry and Chakravarti, Aravinda and Chambers, John C and Chauhan, Ganesh and Ciullo, Marina and Cocca, Massimiliano and Collins, Francis and Cordell, Heather J and Davies, Gail and de Borst, Martin H and de Geus, Eco J and Deary, Ian J and Deelen, Joris and del Greco M, Fabiola and Demirkale, Cumhur Yusuf and D{\"o}rr, Marcus and Ehret, Georg B and Elosua, Roberto and Enroth, Stefan and Erzurumluoglu, A Mesut and Ferreira, Teresa and Fr{\r a}nberg, Mattias and Franco, Oscar H and Gandin, Ilaria and Gasparini, Paolo and Giedraitis, Vilmantas and Gieger, Christian and Girotto, Giorgia and Goel, Anuj and Gow, Alan J and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Guo, Xiuqing and Gyllensten, Ulf and Hamsten, Anders and Harris, Tamara B and Harris, Sarah E and Hartman, Catharina A and Havulinna, Aki S and Hicks, Andrew A and Hofer, Edith and Hofman, Albert and Hottenga, Jouke-Jan and Huffman, Jennifer E and Hwang, Shih-Jen and Ingelsson, Erik and James, Alan and Jansen, Rick and J{\"a}rvelin, Marjo-Riitta and Joehanes, Roby and Johansson, {\r A}sa and Johnson, Andrew D and Joshi, Peter K and Jousilahti, Pekka and Jukema, J Wouter and Jula, Antti and K{\"a}h{\"o}nen, Mika and Kathiresan, Sekar and Keavney, Bernard D and Khaw, Kay-Tee and Knekt, Paul and Knight, Joanne and Kolcic, Ivana and Kooner, Jaspal S and Koskinen, Seppo and Kristiansson, Kati and Kutalik, Zolt{\'a}n and Laan, Maris and Larson, Marty and Launer, Lenore J and Lehne, Benjamin and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Liewald, David C M and Lin, Li and Lind, Lars and Lindgren, Cecilia M and Liu, Yongmei and Loos, Ruth J F and Lopez, Lorna M and Lu, Yingchang and Lyytik{\"a}inen, Leo-Pekka and Mahajan, Anubha and Mamasoula, Chrysovalanto and Marrugat, Jaume and Marten, Jonathan and Milaneschi, Yuri and Morgan, Anna and Morris, Andrew P and Morrison, Alanna C and Munson, Peter J and Nalls, Mike A and Nandakumar, Priyanka and Nelson, Christopher P and Niiranen, Teemu and Nolte, Ilja M and Nutile, Teresa and Oldehinkel, Albertine J and Oostra, Ben A and O{\textquoteright}Reilly, Paul F and Org, Elin and Padmanabhan, Sandosh and Palmas, Walter and Palotie, Aarno and Pattie, Alison and Penninx, Brenda W J H and Perola, Markus and Peters, Annette and Polasek, Ozren and Pramstaller, Peter P and Nguyen, Quang Tri and Raitakari, Olli T and Ren, Meixia and Rettig, Rainer and Rice, Kenneth and Ridker, Paul M and Ried, Janina S and Riese, Harri{\"e}tte and Ripatti, Samuli and Robino, Antonietta and Rose, Lynda M and Rotter, Jerome I and Rudan, Igor and Ruggiero, Daniela and Saba, Yasaman and Sala, Cinzia F and Salomaa, Veikko and Samani, Nilesh J and Sarin, Antti-Pekka and Schmidt, Reinhold and Schmidt, Helena and Shrine, Nick and Siscovick, David and Smith, Albert V and Snieder, Harold and S{\~o}ber, Siim and Sorice, Rossella and Starr, John M and Stott, David J and Strachan, David P and Strawbridge, Rona J and Sundstr{\"o}m, Johan and Swertz, Morris A and Taylor, Kent D and Teumer, Alexander and Tobin, Martin D and Tomaszewski, Maciej and Toniolo, Daniela and Traglia, Michela and Trompet, Stella and Tuomilehto, Jaakko and Tzourio, Christophe and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and Vaez, Ahmad and van der Most, Peter J and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Vergnaud, Anne-Claire and Verwoert, Germaine C and Vitart, Veronique and V{\"o}lker, Uwe and Vollenweider, Peter and Vuckovic, Dragana and Watkins, Hugh and Wild, Sarah H and Willemsen, Gonneke and Wilson, James F and Wright, Alan F and Yao, Jie and Zemunik, Tatijana and Zhang, Weihua and Attia, John R and Butterworth, Adam S and Chasman, Daniel I and Conen, David and Cucca, Francesco and Danesh, John and Hayward, Caroline and Howson, Joanna M M and Laakso, Markku and Lakatta, Edward G and Langenberg, Claudia and Melander, Olle and Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O and Palmer, Colin N A and Risch, Lorenz and Scott, Robert A and Scott, Rodney J and Sever, Peter and Spector, Tim D and van der Harst, Pim and Wareham, Nicholas J and Zeggini, Eleftheria and Levy, Daniel and Munroe, Patricia B and Newton-Cheh, Christopher and Brown, Morris J and Metspalu, Andres and Hung, Adriana M and O{\textquoteright}Donnell, Christopher J and Edwards, Todd L and Psaty, Bruce M and Tzoulaki, Ioanna and Barnes, Michael R and Wain, Louise V and Elliott, Paul and Caulfield, Mark J} } @article {8526, title = {A reference panel of 64,976 haplotypes for genotype imputation.}, journal = {Nat Genet}, year = {2016}, month = {2016 Aug 22}, abstract = {

We describe a reference panel of 64,976 human haplotypes at 39,235,157 SNPs constructed using whole-genome sequence data from 20 studies of predominantly European ancestry. Using this resource leads to accurate genotype imputation at minor allele frequencies as low as 0.1\% and a large increase in the number of SNPs tested in association studies, and it can help to discover and refine causal loci. We describe remote server resources that allow researchers to carry out imputation and phasing consistently and efficiently.

}, issn = {1546-1718}, doi = {10.1038/ng.3643}, author = {McCarthy, Shane and Das, Sayantan and Kretzschmar, Warren and Delaneau, Olivier and Wood, Andrew R and Teumer, Alexander and Kang, Hyun Min and Fuchsberger, Christian and Danecek, Petr and Sharp, Kevin and Luo, Yang and Sidore, Carlo and Kwong, Alan and Timpson, Nicholas and Koskinen, Seppo and Vrieze, Scott and Scott, Laura J and Zhang, He and Mahajan, Anubha and Veldink, Jan and Peters, Ulrike and Pato, Carlos and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Gillies, Christopher E and Gandin, Ilaria and Mezzavilla, Massimo and Gilly, Arthur and Cocca, Massimiliano and Traglia, Michela and Angius, Andrea and Barrett, Jeffrey C and Boomsma, Dorrett and Branham, Kari and Breen, Gerome and Brummett, Chad M and Busonero, Fabio and Campbell, Harry and Chan, Andrew and Chen, Sai and Chew, Emily and Collins, Francis S and Corbin, Laura J and Smith, George Davey and Dedoussis, George and D{\"o}rr, Marcus and Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni and Ferrucci, Luigi and Forer, Lukas and Fraser, Ross M and Gabriel, Stacey and Levy, Shawn and Groop, Leif and Harrison, Tabitha and Hattersley, Andrew and Holmen, Oddgeir L and Hveem, Kristian and Kretzler, Matthias and Lee, James C and McGue, Matt and Meitinger, Thomas and Melzer, David and Min, Josine L and Mohlke, Karen L and Vincent, John B and Nauck, Matthias and Nickerson, Deborah and Palotie, Aarno and Pato, Michele and Pirastu, Nicola and McInnis, Melvin and Richards, J Brent and Sala, Cinzia and Salomaa, Veikko and Schlessinger, David and Schoenherr, Sebastian and Slagboom, P Eline and Small, Kerrin and Spector, Timothy and Stambolian, Dwight and Tuke, Marcus and Tuomilehto, Jaakko and Van den Berg, Leonard H and van Rheenen, Wouter and V{\"o}lker, Uwe and Wijmenga, Cisca and Toniolo, Daniela and Zeggini, Eleftheria and Gasparini, Paolo and Sampson, Matthew G and Wilson, James F and Frayling, Timothy and de Bakker, Paul I W and Swertz, Morris A and McCarroll, Steven and Kooperberg, Charles and Dekker, Annelot and Altshuler, David and Willer, Cristen and Iacono, William and Ripatti, Samuli and Soranzo, Nicole and Walter, Klaudia and Swaroop, Anand and Cucca, Francesco and Anderson, Carl A and Myers, Richard M and Boehnke, Michael and McCarthy, Mark I and Durbin, Richard} } @article {7691, title = {Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology.}, journal = {Nature}, volume = {518}, year = {2015}, month = {2015 Feb 12}, pages = {197-206}, abstract = {

Obesity is heritable and predisposes to many diseases. To understand the genetic basis of obesity better, here we conduct a genome-wide association study and Metabochip meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals. This analysis identifies 97 BMI-associated loci (P~<~5~{\texttimes}~10(-8)), 56 of which are novel. Five loci demonstrate clear evidence of several independent association signals, and many loci have significant effects on other metabolic phenotypes. The 97 loci account for \~{}2.7\% of BMI variation, and genome-wide estimates suggest that common variation accounts for >20\% of BMI variation. Pathway analyses provide strong support for a role of the central nervous system in obesity susceptibility and implicate new genes and pathways, including those related to synaptic function, glutamate signalling, insulin secretion/action, energy metabolism, lipid biology and adipogenesis.

}, keywords = {Adipogenesis, Adiposity, Age Factors, Body Mass Index, Continental Population Groups, Energy Metabolism, Europe, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genome-Wide Association Study, Glutamic Acid, Humans, Insulin, Male, Obesity, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Synapses}, issn = {1476-4687}, doi = {10.1038/nature14177}, author = {Locke, Adam E and Kahali, Bratati and Berndt, Sonja I and Justice, Anne E and Pers, Tune H and Day, Felix R and Powell, Corey and Vedantam, Sailaja and Buchkovich, Martin L and Yang, Jian and Croteau-Chonka, Damien C and Esko, T{\~o}nu and Fall, Tove and Ferreira, Teresa and Gustafsson, Stefan and Kutalik, Zolt{\'a}n and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and Randall, Joshua C and Winkler, Thomas W and Wood, Andrew R and Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie and Faul, Jessica D and Smith, Jennifer A and Hua Zhao, Jing and Zhao, Wei and Chen, Jin and Fehrmann, Rudolf and Hedman, {\r A}sa K and Karjalainen, Juha and Schmidt, Ellen M and Absher, Devin and Amin, Najaf and Anderson, Denise and Beekman, Marian and Bolton, Jennifer L and Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L and Buyske, Steven and Demirkan, Ayse and Deng, Guohong and Ehret, Georg B and Feenstra, Bjarke and Feitosa, Mary F and Fischer, Krista and Goel, Anuj and Gong, Jian and Jackson, Anne U and Kanoni, Stavroula and Kleber, Marcus E and Kristiansson, Kati and Lim, Unhee and Lotay, Vaneet and Mangino, Massimo and Mateo Leach, Irene and Medina-Gomez, Carolina and Medland, Sarah E and Nalls, Michael A and Palmer, Cameron D and Pasko, Dorota and Pechlivanis, Sonali and Peters, Marjolein J and Prokopenko, Inga and Shungin, Dmitry and Stan{\v c}{\'a}kov{\'a}, Alena and Strawbridge, Rona J and Ju Sung, Yun and Tanaka, Toshiko and Teumer, Alexander and Trompet, Stella and van der Laan, Sander W and van Setten, Jessica and Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V and Wang, Zhaoming and Yengo, Loic and Zhang, Weihua and Isaacs, Aaron and Albrecht, Eva and Arnl{\"o}v, Johan and Arscott, Gillian M and Attwood, Antony P and Bandinelli, Stefania and Barrett, Amy and Bas, Isabelita N and Bellis, Claire and Bennett, Amanda J and Berne, Christian and Blagieva, Roza and Bl{\"u}her, Matthias and B{\"o}hringer, Stefan and Bonnycastle, Lori L and B{\"o}ttcher, Yvonne and Boyd, Heather A and Bruinenberg, Marcel and Caspersen, Ida H and Ida Chen, Yii-Der and Clarke, Robert and Daw, E Warwick and de Craen, Anton J M and Delgado, Graciela and Dimitriou, Maria and Doney, Alex S F and Eklund, Niina and Estrada, Karol and Eury, Elodie and Folkersen, Lasse and Fraser, Ross M and Garcia, Melissa E and Geller, Frank and Giedraitis, Vilmantas and Gigante, Bruna and Go, Alan S and Golay, Alain and Goodall, Alison H and Gordon, Scott D and Gorski, Mathias and Grabe, Hans-J{\"o}rgen and Grallert, Harald and Grammer, Tanja B and Gr{\"a}{\ss}ler, J{\"u}rgen and Gr{\"o}nberg, Henrik and Groves, Christopher J and Gusto, Ga{\"e}lle and Haessler, Jeffrey and Hall, Per and Haller, Toomas and Hallmans, Goran and Hartman, Catharina A and Hassinen, Maija and Hayward, Caroline and Heard-Costa, Nancy L and Helmer, Quinta and Hengstenberg, Christian and Holmen, Oddgeir and Hottenga, Jouke-Jan and James, Alan L and Jeff, Janina M and Johansson, {\r A}sa and Jolley, Jennifer and Juliusdottir, Thorhildur and Kinnunen, Leena and Koenig, Wolfgang and Koskenvuo, Markku and Kratzer, Wolfgang and Laitinen, Jaana and Lamina, Claudia and Leander, Karin and Lee, Nanette R and Lichtner, Peter and Lind, Lars and Lindstr{\"o}m, Jaana and Sin Lo, Ken and Lobbens, St{\'e}phane and Lorbeer, Roberto and Lu, Yingchang and Mach, Fran{\c c}ois and Magnusson, Patrik K E and Mahajan, Anubha and McArdle, Wendy L and McLachlan, Stela and Menni, Cristina and Merger, Sigrun and Mihailov, Evelin and Milani, Lili and Moayyeri, Alireza and Monda, Keri L and Morken, Mario A and Mulas, Antonella and M{\"u}ller, Gabriele and M{\"u}ller-Nurasyid, Martina and Musk, Arthur W and Nagaraja, Ramaiah and N{\"o}then, Markus M and Nolte, Ilja M and Pilz, Stefan and Rayner, Nigel W and Renstrom, Frida and Rettig, Rainer and Ried, Janina S and Ripke, Stephan and Robertson, Neil R and Rose, Lynda M and Sanna, Serena and Scharnagl, Hubert and Scholtens, Salome and Schumacher, Fredrick R and Scott, William R and Seufferlein, Thomas and Shi, Jianxin and Vernon Smith, Albert and Smolonska, Joanna and Stanton, Alice V and Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur and Stirrups, Kathleen and Stringham, Heather M and Sundstr{\"o}m, Johan and Swertz, Morris A and Swift, Amy J and Syv{\"a}nen, Ann-Christine and Tan, Sian-Tsung and Tayo, Bamidele O and Thorand, Barbara and Thorleifsson, Gudmar and Tyrer, Jonathan P and Uh, Hae-Won and Vandenput, Liesbeth and Verhulst, Frank C and Vermeulen, Sita H and Verweij, Niek and Vonk, Judith M and Waite, Lindsay L and Warren, Helen R and Waterworth, Dawn and Weedon, Michael N and Wilkens, Lynne R and Willenborg, Christina and Wilsgaard, Tom and Wojczynski, Mary K and Wong, Andrew and Wright, Alan F and Zhang, Qunyuan and Brennan, Eoin P and Choi, Murim and Dastani, Zari and Drong, Alexander W and Eriksson, Per and Franco-Cereceda, Anders and G{\r a}din, Jesper R and Gharavi, Ali G and Goddard, Michael E and Handsaker, Robert E and Huang, Jinyan and Karpe, Fredrik and Kathiresan, Sekar and Keildson, Sarah and Kiryluk, Krzysztof and Kubo, Michiaki and Lee, Jong-Young and Liang, Liming and Lifton, Richard P and Ma, Baoshan and McCarroll, Steven A and McKnight, Amy J and Min, Josine L and Moffatt, Miriam F and Montgomery, Grant W and Murabito, Joanne M and Nicholson, George and Nyholt, Dale R and Okada, Yukinori and Perry, John R B and Dorajoo, Rajkumar and Reinmaa, Eva and Salem, Rany M and Sandholm, Niina and Scott, Robert A and Stolk, Lisette and Takahashi, Atsushi and Tanaka, Toshihiro and Van{\textquoteright}t Hooft, Ferdinand M and Vinkhuyzen, Anna A E and Westra, Harm-Jan and Zheng, Wei and Zondervan, Krina T and Heath, Andrew C and Arveiler, Dominique and Bakker, Stephan J L and Beilby, John and Bergman, Richard N and Blangero, John and Bovet, Pascal and Campbell, Harry and Caulfield, Mark J and Cesana, Giancarlo and Chakravarti, Aravinda and Chasman, Daniel I and Chines, Peter S and Collins, Francis S and Crawford, Dana C and Cupples, L Adrienne and Cusi, Daniele and Danesh, John and de Faire, Ulf and den Ruijter, Hester M and Dominiczak, Anna F and Erbel, Raimund and Erdmann, Jeanette and Eriksson, Johan G and Farrall, Martin and Felix, Stephan B and Ferrannini, Ele and Ferri{\`e}res, Jean and Ford, Ian and Forouhi, Nita G and Forrester, Terrence and Franco, Oscar H and Gansevoort, Ron T and Gejman, Pablo V and Gieger, Christian and Gottesman, Omri and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Gyllensten, Ulf and Hall, Alistair S and Harris, Tamara B and Hattersley, Andrew T and Hicks, Andrew A and Hindorff, Lucia A and Hingorani, Aroon D and Hofman, Albert and Homuth, Georg and Hovingh, G Kees and Humphries, Steve E and Hunt, Steven C and Hypp{\"o}nen, Elina and Illig, Thomas and Jacobs, Kevin B and J{\"a}rvelin, Marjo-Riitta and J{\"o}ckel, Karl-Heinz and Johansen, Berit and Jousilahti, Pekka and Jukema, J Wouter and Jula, Antti M and Kaprio, Jaakko and Kastelein, John J P and Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka M and Kiemeney, Lambertus A and Knekt, Paul and Kooner, Jaspal S and Kooperberg, Charles and Kovacs, Peter and Kraja, Aldi T and Kumari, Meena and Kuusisto, Johanna and Lakka, Timo A and Langenberg, Claudia and Le Marchand, Loic and Lehtim{\"a}ki, Terho and Lyssenko, Valeriya and M{\"a}nnist{\"o}, Satu and Marette, Andr{\'e} and Matise, Tara C and McKenzie, Colin A and McKnight, Barbara and Moll, Frans L and Morris, Andrew D and Morris, Andrew P and Murray, Jeffrey C and Nelis, Mari and Ohlsson, Claes and Oldehinkel, Albertine J and Ong, Ken K and Madden, Pamela A F and Pasterkamp, Gerard and Peden, John F and Peters, Annette and Postma, Dirkje S and Pramstaller, Peter P and Price, Jackie F and Qi, Lu and Raitakari, Olli T and Rankinen, Tuomo and Rao, D C and Rice, Treva K and Ridker, Paul M and Rioux, John D and Ritchie, Marylyn D and Rudan, Igor and Salomaa, Veikko and Samani, Nilesh J and Saramies, Jouko and Sarzynski, Mark A and Schunkert, Heribert and Schwarz, Peter E H and Sever, Peter and Shuldiner, Alan R and Sinisalo, Juha and Stolk, Ronald P and Strauch, Konstantin and T{\"o}njes, Anke and Tr{\'e}gou{\"e}t, David-Alexandre and Tremblay, Angelo and Tremoli, Elena and Virtamo, Jarmo and Vohl, Marie-Claude and V{\"o}lker, Uwe and Waeber, Gerard and Willemsen, Gonneke and Witteman, Jacqueline C and Zillikens, M Carola and Adair, Linda S and Amouyel, Philippe and Asselbergs, Folkert W and Assimes, Themistocles L and Bochud, Murielle and Boehm, Bernhard O and Boerwinkle, Eric and Bornstein, Stefan R and Bottinger, Erwin P and Bouchard, Claude and Cauchi, St{\'e}phane and Chambers, John C and Chanock, Stephen J and Cooper, Richard S and de Bakker, Paul I W and Dedoussis, George and Ferrucci, Luigi and Franks, Paul W and Froguel, Philippe and Groop, Leif C and Haiman, Christopher A and Hamsten, Anders and Hui, Jennie and Hunter, David J and Hveem, Kristian and Kaplan, Robert C and Kivimaki, Mika and Kuh, Diana and Laakso, Markku and Liu, Yongmei and Martin, Nicholas G and M{\"a}rz, Winfried and Melbye, Mads and Metspalu, Andres and Moebus, Susanne and Munroe, Patricia B and Nj{\o}lstad, Inger and Oostra, Ben A and Palmer, Colin N A and Pedersen, Nancy L and Perola, Markus and P{\'e}russe, Louis and Peters, Ulrike and Power, Chris and Quertermous, Thomas and Rauramaa, Rainer and Rivadeneira, Fernando and Saaristo, Timo E and Saleheen, Danish and Sattar, Naveed and Schadt, Eric E and Schlessinger, David and Slagboom, P Eline and Snieder, Harold and Spector, Tim D and Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur and Stumvoll, Michael and Tuomilehto, Jaakko and Uitterlinden, Andr{\'e} G and Uusitupa, Matti and van der Harst, Pim and Walker, Mark and Wallaschofski, Henri and Wareham, Nicholas J and Watkins, Hugh and Weir, David R and Wichmann, H-Erich and Wilson, James F and Zanen, Pieter and Borecki, Ingrid B and Deloukas, Panos and Fox, Caroline S and Heid, Iris M and O{\textquoteright}Connell, Jeffrey R and Strachan, David P and Stefansson, Kari and van Duijn, Cornelia M and Abecasis, Goncalo R and Franke, Lude and Frayling, Timothy M and McCarthy, Mark I and Visscher, Peter M and Scherag, Andr{\'e} and Willer, Cristen J and Boehnke, Michael and Mohlke, Karen L and Lindgren, Cecilia M and Beckmann, Jacques S and Barroso, In{\^e}s and North, Kari E and Ingelsson, Erik and Hirschhorn, Joel N and Loos, Ruth J F and Speliotes, Elizabeth K} } @article {7692, title = {New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution.}, journal = {Nature}, volume = {518}, year = {2015}, month = {2015 Feb 12}, pages = {187-96}, abstract = {

Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of body fat distribution and its molecular links to cardiometabolic traits, here we conduct genome-wide association meta-analyses of traits related to waist and hip circumferences in up to 224,459 individuals. We identify 49 loci (33 new) associated with waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index (BMI), and an additional 19 loci newly associated with related waist and hip circumference measures (P~<~5~{\texttimes}~10(-8)). In total, 20 of the 49 waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for BMI loci show significant sexual dimorphism, 19 of which display a stronger effect in women. The identified loci were enriched for genes expressed in adipose tissue and for putative regulatory elements in adipocytes. Pathway analyses implicated adipogenesis, angiogenesis, transcriptional regulation and insulin resistance as processes affecting fat distribution, providing insight into potential pathophysiological mechanisms.

}, keywords = {Adipocytes, Adipogenesis, Adipose Tissue, Age Factors, Body Fat Distribution, Body Mass Index, Continental Population Groups, Epigenesis, Genetic, Europe, Female, Genome, Human, Genome-Wide Association Study, Humans, Insulin, Insulin Resistance, Male, Models, Biological, Neovascularization, Physiologic, Obesity, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Quantitative Trait Loci, Sex Characteristics, Transcription, Genetic, Waist-Hip Ratio}, issn = {1476-4687}, doi = {10.1038/nature14132}, author = {Shungin, Dmitry and Winkler, Thomas W and Croteau-Chonka, Damien C and Ferreira, Teresa and Locke, Adam E and M{\"a}gi, Reedik and Strawbridge, Rona J and Pers, Tune H and Fischer, Krista and Justice, Anne E and Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie and Wu, Joseph M W and Buchkovich, Martin L and Heard-Costa, Nancy L and Roman, Tamara S and Drong, Alexander W and Song, Ci and Gustafsson, Stefan and Day, Felix R and Esko, T{\~o}nu and Fall, Tove and Kutalik, Zolt{\'a}n and Luan, Jian{\textquoteright}an and Randall, Joshua C and Scherag, Andr{\'e} and Vedantam, Sailaja and Wood, Andrew R and Chen, Jin and Fehrmann, Rudolf and Karjalainen, Juha and Kahali, Bratati and Liu, Ching-Ti and Schmidt, Ellen M and Absher, Devin and Amin, Najaf and Anderson, Denise and Beekman, Marian and Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L and Buyske, Steven and Demirkan, Ayse and Ehret, Georg B and Feitosa, Mary F and Goel, Anuj and Jackson, Anne U and Johnson, Toby and Kleber, Marcus E and Kristiansson, Kati and Mangino, Massimo and Mateo Leach, Irene and Medina-Gomez, Carolina and Palmer, Cameron D and Pasko, Dorota and Pechlivanis, Sonali and Peters, Marjolein J and Prokopenko, Inga and Stan{\v c}{\'a}kov{\'a}, Alena and Ju Sung, Yun and Tanaka, Toshiko and Teumer, Alexander and Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V and Yengo, Loic and Zhang, Weihua and Albrecht, Eva and Arnl{\"o}v, Johan and Arscott, Gillian M and Bandinelli, Stefania and Barrett, Amy and Bellis, Claire and Bennett, Amanda J and Berne, Christian and Bl{\"u}her, Matthias and B{\"o}hringer, Stefan and Bonnet, Fabrice and B{\"o}ttcher, Yvonne and Bruinenberg, Marcel and Carba, Delia B and Caspersen, Ida H and Clarke, Robert and Daw, E Warwick and Deelen, Joris and Deelman, Ewa and Delgado, Graciela and Doney, Alex S F and Eklund, Niina and Erdos, Michael R and Estrada, Karol and Eury, Elodie and Friedrich, Nele and Garcia, Melissa E and Giedraitis, Vilmantas and Gigante, Bruna and Go, Alan S and Golay, Alain and Grallert, Harald and Grammer, Tanja B and Gr{\"a}{\ss}ler, J{\"u}rgen and Grewal, Jagvir and Groves, Christopher J and Haller, Toomas and Hallmans, Goran and Hartman, Catharina A and Hassinen, Maija and Hayward, Caroline and Heikkil{\"a}, Kauko and Herzig, Karl-Heinz and Helmer, Quinta and Hillege, Hans L and Holmen, Oddgeir and Hunt, Steven C and Isaacs, Aaron and Ittermann, Till and James, Alan L and Johansson, Ingegerd and Juliusdottir, Thorhildur and Kalafati, Ioanna-Panagiota and Kinnunen, Leena and 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