Authors
Dmitry Shungin, Thomas W Winkler, Damien C Croteau-Chonka, Teresa Ferreira, Adam E Locke, Reedik Mägi, Rona J Strawbridge, Tune H Pers, Krista Fischer, Anne E Justice, Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Joseph MW Wu, Martin L Buchkovich, Nancy L Heard-Costa, Tamara S Roman, Alexander W Drong, Ci Song, Stefan Gustafsson, Felix R Day, Tonu Esko, Tove Fall, Zoltán Kutalik, Jian’an Luan, Joshua C Randall, André Scherag, Sailaja Vedantam, Andrew R Wood, Jin Chen, Rudolf Fehrmann, Juha Karjalainen, Bratati Kahali, Ching-Ti Liu, Ellen M Schmidt, Devin Absher, Najaf Amin, Denise Anderson, Marian Beekman, Jennifer L Bragg-Gresham, Steven Buyske, Ayse Demirkan, Georg B Ehret, Mary F Feitosa, Anuj Goel, Anne U Jackson, Toby Johnson, Marcus E Kleber, Kati Kristiansson, Massimo Mangino, Irene Mateo Leach, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Cameron D Palmer, Dorota Pasko, Sonali Pechlivanis, Marjolein J Peters, Inga Prokopenko, Alena Stančáková, Yun Ju Sung, Toshiko Tanaka, Alexander Teumer, Jana V Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Loïc Yengo, Weihua Zhang, Eva Albrecht, Johan Ärnlöv, Gillian M Arscott, Stefania Bandinelli, Amy Barrett, Claire Bellis, Amanda J Bennett, Christian Berne, Matthias Blüher, Stefan Böhringer, Fabrice Bonnet, Yvonne Böttcher, Marcel Bruinenberg, Delia B Carba, Ida H Caspersen, Robert Clarke, E Warwick Daw, Joris Deelen, Ewa Deelman, Graciela Delgado, Alex SF Doney, Niina Eklund, Michael R Erdos, Karol Estrada, Elodie Eury, Nele Friedrich, Melissa E Garcia, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Bruna Gigante, Alan S Go, Alain Golay, Harald Grallert, Tanja B Grammer, Jürgen Gräßler, Jagvir Grewal, Christopher J Groves, Toomas Haller, Goran Hallmans, Catharina A Hartman, Maija Hassinen, Caroline Hayward, Kauko Heikkilä, Karl-Heinz Herzig, Quinta Helmer, Hans L Hillege, Oddgeir Holmen, Steven C Hunt, Aaron Isaacs, Till Ittermann, Alan L James, Ingegerd Johansson, Thorhildur Juliusdottir, Ioanna-Panagiota Kalafati, Leena Kinnunen, Wolfgang Koenig, Ishminder K Kooner, Wolfgang Kratzer, Claudia Lamina, Karin Leander, Nanette R Lee, Peter Lichtner, Lars Lind, Jaana Lindström, Stéphane Lobbens, Mattias Lorentzon, François Mach, Patrik KE Magnusson, Anubha Mahajan, Wendy L McArdle, Cristina Menni, Sigrun Merger, Evelin Mihailov, Lili Milani, Rebecca Mills, Alireza Moayyeri, Keri L Monda, Simon P Mooijaart, Thomas W Mühleisen, Antonella Mulas, Gabriele Müller, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Ramaiah Nagaraja, Michael A Nalls, Narisu Narisu, Nicola Glorioso, Ilja M Nolte, Matthias Olden, Nigel W Rayner
Publication date
2015/2/12
Journal
Nature
Volume
518
Issue
7538
Pages
187-196
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
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 × 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 …
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