Vedantam, Sailaja

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

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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

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

Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes

the DIAbetes Genetics Replication And Meta-analysis (DIAGRAM) Consortium, Morris, A. P., Voight, B. F., Teslovich, T. M., Ferreira, T., Segrè, A. V., Steinthorsdottir, V., Strawbridge, R. J., Khan, H., Grallert, H., et al. (2012) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 1,912

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

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Genome-wide trans-ancestry meta-analysis provides insight into the genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes susceptibility

DIAbetes Genetics Replication And Meta-analysis (DIAGRAM) Consortium, Mahajan, A., Asian Genetic Epidemiology Network Type 2 Diabetes (AGEN-T2D) Consortium, South Asian Type 2 Diabetes (SAT2D) Consortium, Mexican American Type 2 Diabetes (MAT2D) Consortium, Type 2 Diabetes Genetic Exploration by Next-generation sequencing in multi-Ethnic Samples (T2D-GENES) Consortium, Go, M. J., Zhang, W., Below, J. E., Gaulton, K. J., et al. (2014) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

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The power of genetic diversity in genome-wide association studies of lipids

Graham, S. E., Clarke, S. L., Wu, K.-H. H., Kanoni, S., Zajac, G. J. M., Ramdas, S., Surakka, I., Ntalla, I., Vedantam, S., Winkler, T. W., et al. (2021) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyLipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health

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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

Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease

Do, R., Willer, C. J., Schmidt, E. M., Sengupta, S., Gao, C., Peloso, G. M., Gustafsson, S., Kanoni, S., Ganna, A., Chen, J., et al. (2013) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyLipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health

Cited by 862

A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height

Yengo, L., Vedantam, S., Marouli, E., Sidorenko, J., Bartell, E., Sakaue, S., Graff, M., Eliasen, A. U., Jiang, Y., Raghavan, S., et al. (2022) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetics and Physical Performance

Cited by 825

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

Cited by 787

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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Rare variant in scavenger receptor BI raises HDL cholesterol and increases risk of coronary heart disease

Zanoni, P., Khetarpal, S. A., Larach, D. B., Hancock-Cerutti, W. F., Millar, J. S., Cuchel, M., DerOhannessian, S., Kontush, A., Surendran, P., Saleheen, D., et al. (2016) · Science

Cholesterol and Lipid MetabolismLipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health

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Identification of IL6R and chromosome 11q13.5 as risk loci for asthma

Ferreira, M. A., Matheson, M. C., Duffy, D. L., Marks, G. B., Hui, J., Le Souëf, P., Danoy, P., Baltic, S., Nyholt, D. R., Jenkins, M., et al. (2011) · The Lancet

Asthma and respiratory diseasesGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 381

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

Cited by 326

A deep catalogue of protein-coding variation in 983,578 individuals

Sun, K. Y., Bai, X., Chen, S., Bao, S., Zhang, C., Kapoor, M., Backman, J., Joseph, T., Maxwell, E., Mitra, G., et al. (2024) · Nature

Genomics and Rare DiseasesGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

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Genetic evidence that carbohydrate-stimulated insulin secretion leads to obesity

Astley, C. M., Todd, J. N., Salem, R. M., Vedantam, S., Ebbeling, C. B., Huang, P. L., Ludwig, D. S., Hirschhorn, J. N., & Florez, J. C. (2018) · Clinical Chemistry

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyPancreatic function and diabetes

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