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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

New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk

DIAGRAM Consortium, Dupuis, J., GIANT Consortium, Global BPgen Consortium, Anders Hamsten on behalf of Procardis Consortium, the MAGIC investigators, Langenberg, C., Prokopenko, I., Saxena, R., Soranzo, N., et al. (2010) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 2,166

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

Large-scale association analysis identifies 13 new susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease

Cardiogenics, Schunkert, H., the CARDIoGRAM Consortium, König, I. R., Kathiresan, S., Reilly, M. P., Assimes, T. L., Holm, H., Preuss, M., Stewart, A. F. R., et al. (2011) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 1,866

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes

Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Zeggini, E., Scott, L. J., Saxena, R., Voight, B. F., Marchini, J. L., Hu, T., de Bakker, P. I., Abecasis, G. R., Almgren, P., et al. (2008) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 1,864

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

Large-scale association analysis identifies new risk loci for coronary artery disease

The CARDIoGRAMplusC4D Consortium, Deloukas, P., DIAGRAM Consortium, CARDIOGENICS Consortium, MuTHER Consortium, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Kanoni, S., Willenborg, C., Farrall, M., Assimes, T. L., et al. (2013) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 1,614

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

Genome-wide association study identifies eight loci associated with blood pressure

Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, Newton-Cheh, C., Johnson, T., Gateva, V., Tobin, M. D., Bochud, M., Coin, L., Najjar, S. S., Zhao, J. H., Heath, S. C., et al. (2009) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyBlood Pressure and Hypertension Studies

Cited by 1,215

The genetic architecture of type 2 diabetes

Fuchsberger, C., Flannick, J., Teslovich, T. M., Mahajan, A., Agarwala, V., Gaulton, K. J., Ma, C., Fontanillas, P., Moutsianas, L., McCarthy, D. J., et al. (2016) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyGenetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Cited by 1,051

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

Cited by 1,034

Human metabolic individuality in biomedical and pharmaceutical research

CARDIoGRAM, Suhre, K., Shin, S.-Y., Petersen, A.-K., Mohney, R. P., Meredith, D., Wägele, B., Altmaier, E., Deloukas, P., Erdmann, J., et al. (2011) · Nature

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyMetabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies

Cited by 1,017

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

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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

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

Common genetic variants of the FADS1 FADS2 gene cluster and their reconstructed haplotypes are associated with the fatty acid composition in phospholipids

Schaeffer, L., Gohlke, H., Müller, M., Heid, I. M., Palmer, L. J., Kompauer, I., Demmelmair, H., Illig, T., Koletzko, B., & Heinrich, J. (2006) · Human Molecular Genetics

Fatty Acid Research and HealthGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 561

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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Thirty new loci for age at menarche identified by a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies

The GIANT Consortium, Elks, C. E., Perry, J. R. B., Sulem, P., Chasman, D. I., Franceschini, N., He, C., Lunetta, K. L., Visser, J. A., Byrne, E. M., et al. (2010) · Nature Genetics

Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormonesGenetic Associations and Epidemiology

Cited by 504

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

Genetic evidence that raised sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) levels reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes

Perry, J. R. B., Weedon, M. N., Langenberg, C., Jackson, A. U., Lyssenko, V., Sparsø, T., Thorleifsson, G., Grallert, H., Ferrucci, L., Maggio, M., et al. (2010) · Human Molecular Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyHormonal and reproductive studies

Cited by 217

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies from the CHARGE consortium identifies common variants associated with carotid intima media thickness and plaque

the CARDIoGRAM Consortium, Bis, J. C., Kavousi, M., Franceschini, N., Isaacs, A., Abecasis, G. R., Schminke, U., Post, W. S., Smith, A. V., Cupples, L. A., et al. (2011) · Nature Genetics

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyCardiovascular Health and Disease Prevention

Cited by 212

The Role of Adiposity in Cardiometabolic Traits: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis

Fall, T., Hägg, S., Mägi, R., Ploner, A., Fischer, K., Horikoshi, M., Sarin, A.-P., Thorleifsson, G., Ladenvall, C., Kals, M., et al. (2013) · PLoS Medicine

Genetic Associations and EpidemiologyAdipokines, Inflammation, and Metabolic Diseases

Cited by 203