Speliotes, Elizabeth K.

Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

Study, T. L. C., Locke, A. E., The ADIPOGen Consortium, The AGEN-BMI Working Group, The CARDIOGRAMplusC4D Consortium, The CKDGen Consortium, The, G. L. G. C., The, I. C. B. P., The MAGIC Investigators, The MuTHER Consortium, et al. (2015) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 4,534

Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index

MAGIC, Speliotes, E. K., on behalf of Procardis Consortium, Willer, C. J., Berndt, S. I., Monda, K. L., Thorleifsson, G., Jackson, A. U., Allen, H. L., Lindgren, C. M., et al. (2010) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 2,912

Genome-wide association analysis identifies loci for type 2 diabetes and triglyceride levels

Saxena, R., Voight, B. F., Lyssenko, V., Burtt, N. P., de Bakker, P. I. W., Chen, H., Roix, J. J., Kathiresan, S., Hirschhorn, J. N., Daly, M. J., et al. (2007) · Science

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 2,843

Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height

Lango Allen, H., Estrada, K., Lettre, G., Berndt, S. I., Weedon, M. N., Rivadeneira, F., Willer, C. J., Jackson, A. U., Vedantam, S., Raychaudhuri, S., et al. (2010) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetics and Physical Performance

Cited by 1,945

Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

The Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) Consortium, Wood, A. R., The MIGen Consortium, The PAGE Consortium, Study, T. L. C., Esko, T., Yang, J., Vedantam, S., Pers, T. H., Gustafsson, S., et al. (2014) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetics and Physical Performance

Cited by 1,853

New genetic loci link adipose and insulin biology to body fat distribution

The ADIPOGen Consortium, Shungin, D., The CARDIOGRAMplusC4D Consortium, The CKDGen Consortium, The GEFOS Consortium, The GENIE Consortium, The, G. L. G. C., The, I. C. B. P., The International Endogene Consortium, Study, T. L. C., et al. (2015) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyAdipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases

Cited by 1,580

Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity

The Prostate, L., Loos, R. J. F., KORA, Study, N. H., Initiative, D. G., Study, T. S., The Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, FUSION, Lindgren, C. M., Li, S., et al. (2008) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyRegulation of Appetite and Obesity

Cited by 1,325

Genome-wide association analysis identifies variants associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease that have distinct effects on metabolic traits

Speliotes, E. K., Yerges-Armstrong, L. M., Wu, J., Hernaez, R., Kim, L. J., Palmer, C. D., Gudnason, V., Eiriksdottir, G., Garcia, M. E., Launer, L. J., et al. (2011) · PLoS Genetics

Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 984

Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution

MAGIC, Heid, I. M., Jackson, A. U., Randall, J. C., Winkler, T. W., Qi, L., Steinthorsdottir, V., Thorleifsson, G., Zillikens, M. C., Speliotes, E. K., et al. (2010) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 931

Biological interpretation of genome-wide association studies using predicted gene functions

Pers, T. H., Karjalainen, J. M., Chan, Y., Westra, H.-J., Wood, A. R., Yang, J., Lui, J. C., Vedantam, S., Gustafsson, S., Esko, T., et al. (2015) · Nature Communications

Bioinformatics and Genomic NetworksGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

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Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture

Berndt, S. I., Gustafsson, S., Mägi, R., Ganna, A., Wheeler, E., Feitosa, M. F., Justice, A. E., Monda, K. L., Croteau-Chonka, D. C., Day, F. R., et al. (2013) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetics and Physical Performance

Cited by 646

Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height

Marouli, E., Graff, M., Medina-Gomez, C., Lo, K. S., Wood, A. R., Kjaer, T. R., Fine, R. S., Lu, Y., Schurmann, C., Highland, H. M., et al. (2017) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetics and Physical Performance

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PNPLA3 Variants Specifically Confer Increased Risk for Histologic Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease But Not Metabolic Disease†,‡

Speliotes, E. K., Butler, J. L., Palmer, C. D., Voight, B. F., & Hirschhorn, J. N. (2010) · Hepatology

Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 362

Genetic variation near IRS1 associates with reduced adiposity and an impaired metabolic profile

Kilpeläinen, T. O., Zillikens, M. C., Stančákova, A., Finucane, F. M., Ried, J. S., Langenberg, C., Zhang, W., Beckmann, J. S., Luan, J., Vandenput, L., et al. (2011) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyAdipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases

Cited by 335

Genetic evidence of assortative mating in humans

Robinson, M. R., Kleinman, A., Graff, M., Vinkhuyzen, A. A. E., Couper, D., Miller, M. B., Peyrot, W. J., Abdellaoui, A., Zietsch, B. P., Nolte, I. M., et al. (2017) · Nature Human Behaviour

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic and phenotypic traits in livestock

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Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 17 loci associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Chen, Y., Du, X., Kuppa, A., Feitosa, M. F., Bielak, L. F., O’Connell, J. R., Musani, S. K., Guo, X., Kahali, B., Chen, V. L., et al. (2023) · Nature Genetics

Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 215

Association of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease With Lower Brain Volume in Healthy Middle-aged Adults in the Framingham Study

Weinstein, G., Zelber-Sagi, S., Preis, S. R., Beiser, A. S., DeCarli, C., Speliotes, E. K., Satizabal, C. L., Vasan, R. S., & Seshadri, S. (2018) · JAMA Neurology

Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentDementia and Cognitive Impairment Research

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PNPLA3 genotype and diabetes identify patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease at high risk of incident cirrhosis

Chen, V. L., Oliveri, A., Miller, M. J., Wijarnpreecha, K., Du, X., Chen, Y., Cushing, K. C., Lok, A. S., & Speliotes, E. K. (2023) · Gastroenterology

Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentLiver Diseases and Immunity

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Body composition and genetic lipodystrophy risk score associate with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and liver fibrosis

Chen, V. L., Wright, A. P., Halligan, B., Chen, Y., Du, X., Handelman, S. K., Long, M. T., Kiel, D. P., & Speliotes, E. K. (2019) · Hepatology Communications

Liver Disease Diagnosis and TreatmentGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

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Functional interrogation of cellular Lp(a) uptake by genome-scale CRISPR screening

Khan, T. G., Bragazzi Cunha, J., Raut, C., Burroughs, M., Vyas, H. S., Leix, K., Goonewardena, S. N., Smrcka, A. V., Speliotes, E. K., & Emmer, B. T. (2025) · Atherosclerosis

Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular HealthCholesterol and Lipid Metabolism

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