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Aki S. Havulinna
Researcher at National Institute for Health and Welfare
Publications - 280
Citations - 40203
Aki S. Havulinna is an academic researcher from National Institute for Health and Welfare. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Genome-wide association study. The author has an hindex of 60, co-authored 252 publications receiving 34573 citations. Previous affiliations of Aki S. Havulinna include University of Helsinki & National Institutes of Health.
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Biological, clinical and population relevance of 95 loci for blood lipids
Tanya M. Teslovich,Kiran Musunuru,Albert V. Smith,Andrew C. Edmondson,Ioannis M. Stylianou,Masahiro Koseki,James P. Pirruccello,James P. Pirruccello,James P. Pirruccello,Samuli Ripatti,Daniel I. Chasman,Cristen J. Willer,Christopher T. Johansen,Sigrid W. Fouchier,Aaron Isaacs,Gina M. Peloso,Maja Barbalić,Sally L. Ricketts,Joshua C. Bis,Yurii S. Aulchenko,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Mary F. Feitosa,John C. Chambers,Marju Orho-Melander,Olle Melander,Toby Johnson,Xiaohui Li,Xiuqing Guo,Mingyao Li,Yoon Shin Cho,Min Jin Go,Young Jin Kim,Jong-Young Lee,Taesung Park,Kyunga Kim,Xueling Sim,Rick Twee-Hee Ong,Damien C. Croteau-Chonka,Leslie A. Lange,Joshua D. Smith,Kijoung Song,Jing Hua Zhao,Xin Yuan,Jian'an Luan,Claudia Lamina,Andreas Ziegler,Weihua Zhang,Robert Y.L. Zee,Alan F. Wright,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,James F. Wilson,Gonneke Willemsen,H.-Erich Wichmann,John Whitfield,Dawn M. Waterworth,Nicholas J. Wareham,Gérard Waeber,Peter Vollenweider,Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Veronique Vitart,André G. Uitterlinden,Manuela Uda,Jaakko Tuomilehto,John R. Thompson,Toshiko Tanaka,Ida Surakka,Heather M. Stringham,Tim D. Spector,Nicole Soranzo,Nicole Soranzo,Johannes H. Smit,Juha Sinisalo,Kaisa Silander,Eric J.G. Sijbrands,Angelo Scuteri,James Scott,David Schlessinger,Serena Sanna,Veikko Salomaa,Juha Saharinen,Chiara Sabatti,Aimo Ruokonen,Igor Rudan,Lynda M. Rose,Robert Roberts,Mark J. Rieder,Bruce M. Psaty,Peter P. Pramstaller,Irene Pichler,Markus Perola,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Nancy L. Pedersen,Cristian Pattaro,Alex N. Parker,Guillaume Paré,Ben A. Oostra,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Markku S. Nieminen,Deborah A. Nickerson,Grant W. Montgomery,Thomas Meitinger,Ruth McPherson,Mark I. McCarthy,Wendy L. McArdle,David Masson,Nicholas G. Martin,Fabio Marroni,Massimo Mangino,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Gavin Lucas,Robert Luben,Ruth J. F. Loos,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Guillaume Lettre,Claudia Langenberg,Lenore J. Launer,Edward G. Lakatta,Reijo Laaksonen,Kirsten Ohm Kyvik,Florian Kronenberg,Inke R. Koenig,Kay-Tee Khaw,Jaakko Kaprio,Lee M. Kaplan,Åsa Johansson,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,A. Cecile J.W. Janssens,Erik Ingelsson,Wilmar Igi,G. Kees Hovingh,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Albert Hofman,Andrew A. Hicks,Christian Hengstenberg,Iris M. Heid,Caroline Hayward,Aki S. Havulinna,Nicholas D. Hastie,Tamara B. Harris,Talin Haritunians,Alistair S. Hall,Ulf Gyllensten,Candace Guiducci,Leif Groop,Leif Groop,Elena Gonzalez,Christian Gieger,Nelson B. Freimer,Luigi Ferrucci,Jeanette Erdmann,Paul Elliott,Kenechi Ejebe,Angela Doering,Anna F. Dominiczak,Serkalem Demissie,Panagiotis Deloukas,Eco J. C. de Geus,Ulf de Faire,Gabriel Crawford,Francis S. Collins,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Mark J. Caulfield,Harry Campbell,Noël P. Burtt,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Dorret I. Boomsma,S. Matthijs Boekholdt,Richard N. Bergman,Inês Barroso,Stefania Bandinelli,Christie M. Ballantyne,Themistocles L. Assimes,Themistocles L. Assimes,Thomas Quertermous,Thomas Quertermous,David Altshuler,David Altshuler,Mark Seielstad,Tien Yin Wong,E-Shyong Tai,Alan B. Feranil,Christopher W. Kuzawa,Christopher W. Kuzawa,Linda S. Adair,Herman A. Taylor,Ingrid B. Borecki,Stacey Gabriel,James G. Wilson,Hilma Holm,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ronald M. Krauss,Karen L. Mohlke,Jose M. Ordovas,Patricia B. Munroe,Jaspal S. Kooner,Alan R. Tall,Robert A. Hegele,John J.P. Kastelein,Eric E. Schadt,Jerome I. Rotter,Eric Boerwinkle,David P. Strachan,Vincent Mooser,Kari Stefansson,Muredach P. Reilly,Nilesh J. Samani,Heribert Schunkert,L. Adrienne Cupples,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Paul M. Ridker,Daniel J. Rader,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Leena Peltonen,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Michael Boehnke,Sekar Kathiresan +218 more
TL;DR: The results identify several novel loci associated with plasma lipids that are also associated with CAD and provide the foundation to develop a broader biological understanding of lipoprotein metabolism and to identify new therapeutic opportunities for the prevention of CAD.
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Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index
Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Cristen J. Willer,Sonja I. Berndt,Keri L. Monda,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Anne U. Jackson,Hana Lango Allen,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Jian'an Luan,Reedik Maegi,Joshua C. Randall,Sailaja Vedantam,Thomas W. Winkler,Lu Qi,Lu Qi,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Iris M. Heid,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Heather M. Stringham,Michael N. Weedon,Eleanor Wheeler,Andrew R. Wood,Teresa Ferreira,Robert J. Weyant,Ayellet V. Segrè,Ayellet V. Segrè,Karol Estrada,Liming Liang,James Nemesh,James Nemesh,Ju-Hyun Park,Stefan Gustafsson,Tuomas O. Kilpelaenen,Jian Yang,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Tõnu Esko,Mary F. Feitosa,Zoltán Kutalik,Massimo Mangino,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Soumya Raychaudhuri,André Scherag,Albert V. Smith,Ryan P. Welch,Jing Hua Zhao,Katja K.H. Aben,Devin Absher,Najaf Amin,Anna L. Dixon,Eva Fisher,Nicole L. Glazer,Michael E. Goddard,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Volker Hoesel,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Åsa Johansson,Åsa Johansson,Toby Johnson,Shamika Ketkar,Claudia Lamina,Shengxu Li,Miriam F. Moffatt,Richard H. Myers,Narisu Narisu,John R. B. Perry,Marjolein Peters,Michael Preuss,Samuli Ripatti,Fernando Rivadeneira,Camilla H. Sandholt,Laura J. Scott,Nicholas J. Timpson,Jonathan Tyrer,Sophie van Wingerden,Richard M. Watanabe,Charles C. White,Fredrik Wiklund,Christina Barlassina,Daniel I. Chasman,Daniel I. Chasman,Mark E. Cooper,John-Olov Jansson,Robert Lawrence,Niina Pellikka,Inga Prokopenko,Jianxin Shi,Elisabeth Thiering,Helene Alavere,Maria Teresa Sciarrone Alibrandi,Peter Almgren,Alice M. Arnold,Thor Aspelund,Larry D. Atwood,Beverley Balkau,Anthony J. Balmforth,Amanda J. Bennett,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Richard N. Bergman,Sven Bergmann,Heike Biebermann,Alexandra I. F. Blakemore,Tanja Boes,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Stefan R. Bornstein,Morris Brown,Thomas A. Buchanan,Fabio Busonero,Harry Campbell,Francesco P. Cappuccio,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Chih-Mei Chen,Peter S. Chines,Robert Clarke,Lachlan J. M. Coin,John M. C. Connell,Ian N. M. Day,Martin den Heijer,Jubao Duan,Shah Ebrahim,Paul Elliott,Roberto Elosua,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Michael R. Erdos,Johan G. Eriksson,Maurizio F. Facheris,Stephan B. Felix,Pamela Fischer-Posovszky,Aaron R. Folsom,Aaron R. Folsom,Nele Friedrich,Nelson B. Freimer,Mao Fu,Stefan Gaget,Stefan Gaget,Pablo V. Gejman,Eco J. C. de Geus,Christian Gieger,Anette P. Gjesing,Anuj Goel,Philippe Goyette,Harald Grallert,Juergen Graessler,Danielle M. Greenawalt,Christopher J. Groves,Vilmundur Gudnason,Candace Guiducci,Anna-Liisa Hartikainen,Neelam Hassanali,Alistair S. Hall,Aki S. Havulinna,Caroline Hayward,Andrew C. Heath,Christian Hengstenberg,Andrew A. Hicks,Anke Hinney,Albert Hofman,Georg Homuth,Jennie Hui,Wilmar Igl,Carlos Iribarren,Carlos Iribarren,Bo Isomaa,Kevin B. Jacobs,Ivonne Jarick,Elizabeth S. Jewell,Ulrich John,Torben Jørgensen,Pekka Jousilahti,Antti Jula,Marika Kaakinen,Eero Kajantie,Lee M. Kaplan,Sekar Kathiresan,Johannes Kettunen,Leena Kinnunen,Joshua W. Knowles,Ivana Kolcic,Inke R. Koenig,Seppo Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Johanna Kuusisto,Peter Kraft,Kirsti Kvaløy,Jaana Laitinen,Olivier Lantieri,Chiara Lanzani,Lenore J. Launer,Cécile Lecoeur,Cécile Lecoeur,Terho Lehtimaeki,Guillaume Lettre,Guillaume Lettre,Jianjun Liu,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Mattias Lorentzon,Robert Luben,Barbara Ludwig,Paolo Manunta,Diana Marek,Michel Marre,Nicholas G. Martin,Wendy L. McArdle,Anne McCarthy,Barbara McKnight,Thomas Meitinger,Olle Melander,David Meyre,David Meyre,Kristian Midthjell,Grant W. Montgomery,Mario A. Morken,Andrew P. Morris,Rosanda Mulić,Julius S. Ngwa,Mari Nelis,Mari Nelis,Matt Neville,Dale R. Nyholt,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Stephen O'Rahilly,Ken K. Ong,Ben A. Oostra,Guillaume Paré,Alex N. Parker,Markus Perola,Irene Pichler,Kirsi H. Pietilaeinen,Carl G. P. Platou,Ozren Polasek,Anneli Pouta,Suzanne Rafelt,Olli T. Raitakari,Nigel W. Rayner,Martin Ridderstråle,Winfried Rief,Aimo Ruokonen,Neil Robertson,Peter Rzehak,Veikko Salomaa,Alan R. Sanders,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Serena Sanna,Jouko Saramies,Markku J. Savolainen,Susann Scherag,Sabine Schipf,Stefan Schreiber,Heribert Schunkert,Kaisa Silander,Juha Sinisalo,David S. Siscovick,Jan Smit,Nicole Soranzo,Nicole Soranzo,Ulla Sovio,Jonathan Stephens,Jonathan Stephens,Ida Surakka,Amy J. Swift,Mari-Liis Tammesoo,Jean-Claude Tardif,Jean-Claude Tardif,Maris Teder-Laving,Tanya M. Teslovich,John R. Thompson,John R. Thompson,Brian Thomson,Anke Toenjes,Tiinamaija Tuomi,Joyce B. J. van Meurs,Gert-Jan B. van Ommen,Vincent Vatin,Vincent Vatin,Jorma S. A. Viikari,Jorma S. A. Viikari,Sophie Visvikis-Siest,Veronique Vitart,Carla I. G. Vogel,Benjamin F. Voight,Lindsay L. Waite,Henri Wallaschofski,G. Bragi Walters,Elisabeth Widen,Susanna Wiegand,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Daniel R. Witte,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,Jianfeng Xu,Qunyuan Zhang,Lina Zgaga,Andreas Ziegler,Paavo Zitting,John Beilby,I. Sadaf Farooqi,Johannes Hebebrand,Heikki V. Huikuri,Alan James,Mika Kaehoenen,Douglas F. Levinson,Fabio Macciardi,Fabio Macciardi,Markku S. Nieminen,Claes Ohlsson,Lyle J. Palmer,Paul M. Ridker,Paul M. Ridker,Michael Stumvoll,Jacques S. Beckmann,Heiner Boeing,Eric Boerwinkle,Dorret I. Boomsma,Mark J. Caulfield,Stephen J. Chanock,Francis S. Collins,L. Adrienne Cupples,George Davey Smith,Jeanette Erdmann,Philippe Froguel,Philippe Froguel,Philippe Froguel,Henrik Greonberg,Ulf Gyllensten,Per Hall,Torben Hansen,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Richard B. Hayes,Joachim Heinrich,Frank B. Hu,Frank B. Hu,Kristian Hveem,Thomas Illig,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Jaakko Kaprio,Fredrik Karpe,Kay-Tee Khaw,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Heiko Krude,Markku Laakso,Debbie A Lawlor,Andres Metspalu,Patricia B. Munroe,Willem H. Ouwehand,Willem H. Ouwehand,Willem H. Ouwehand,Oluf Pedersen,Oluf Pedersen,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Annette Peters,Peter P. Pramstaller,Thomas Quertermous,Thomas Reinehr,Aila Rissanen,Igor Rudan,Igor Rudan,Nilesh J. Samani,Peter Schwarz,Alan R. Shuldiner,Tim D. Spector,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Manuela Uda,André G. Uitterlinden,Timo T. Valle,Martin Wabitsch,Gerard Waeber,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,James F. Wilson,Alan F. Wright,M. Carola Zillikens,Nilanjan Chatterjee,Steven A. McCarroll,Shaun Purcell,Eric E. Schadt,Peter M. Visscher,Themistocles L. Assimes,Ingrid B. Borecki,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Leif Groop,Talin Haritunians,David J. Hunter,David J. Hunter,Robert C. Kaplan,Karen L. Mohlke,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Leena Peltonen,David Schlessinger,David P. Strachan,Cornelia M. van Duijn,H-Erich Wichmann,Timothy M. Frayling,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Inês Barroso,Inês Barroso,Michael Boehnke,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Kari E. North,Mark I. McCarthy,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Erik Ingelsson,Ruth J. F. Loos +413 more
TL;DR: Genetic loci associated with body mass index map near key hypothalamic regulators of energy balance, and one of these loci is near GIPR, an incretin receptor, which may provide new insights into human body weight regulation.
Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index
Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Cristen J. Willer,Sonja I. Berndt,Keri L. Monda,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Anne U. Jackson,H Lango Allen,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Jian'an Luan,Reedik Mägi,Joshua C. Randall,Sailaja Vedantam,Thomas W. Winkler,Lu Qi,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Iris M. Heid,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Heather M. Stringham,Michael N. Weedon,Eleanor Wheeler,Andrew R. Wood,Teresa Ferreira,Robert J. Weyant,Ayellet V. Segrè,K. Estrada,Liming Liang,James Nemesh,Ju-Hyun Park,Stefan Gustafsson,Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen,Jian Yang,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Tõnu Esko,Mary F. Feitosa,Zoltán Kutalik,Massimo Mangino,Soumya Raychaudhuri,André Scherag,Albert V. Smith,Ryan P. Welch,Jing Hua Zhao,Katja K.H. Aben,Devin Absher,Najaf Amin,Anna L. Dixon,Eva Fisher,Nicole L. Glazer,Michael E. Goddard,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Volker Hoesel,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Åsa Johansson,Toby Johnson,Shamika Ketkar,Claudia Lamina,Shengxu Li,MF Moffatt,Richard H. Myers,Narisu Narisu,John R. B. Perry,Maire Peters,Michael Preuss,Samuli Ripatti,Fernando Rivadeneira,Camilla H. Sandholt,Laura J. Scott,Nicholas J. Timpson,Jonathan Tyrer,S. van Wingerden,Richard M. Watanabe,Charles L. White,Fredrik Wiklund,Cristina Barlassina,Daniel I. Chasman,Mark E. Cooper,John-Olov Jansson,Robert W. Lawrence,Niina Pellikka,Inga Prokopenko,Jianxin Shi,Elisabeth Thiering,Helene Alavere,Maria Teresa Sciarrone Alibrandi,Peter Almgren,Andreas Arnold,Thor Aspelund,Larry D. Atwood,Beverley Balkau,Anthony J. Balmforth,Amanda J. Bennett,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Richard N. Bergman,Sven Bergmann,Heike Biebermann,Alexandra I. F. Blakemore,Tanja Boes,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Stefan R. Bornstein,Michael Brown,Thomas A. Buchanan,Fabio Busonero,Harry Campbell,Francesco P. Cappuccio,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Y. D. Chen,C. M. Chen,Peter S. Chines,Robert Clarke,Lachlan J. M. Coin,John M. C. Connell,Ian N.M. Day,M. den Heijer,Jubao Duan,Shah Ebrahim,Paul Elliott,Roberto Elosua,G. Eiriksdottir,Mike Erdos,Johan G. Eriksson,Maurizio Facheris,Stephan B. Felix,Pamela Fischer-Posovszky,Aaron R. Folsom,Nele Friedrich,Nelson B. Freimer,Mao Fu,Stéphane Gaget,Pablo V. Gejman,Eco J. C. de Geus,Christian Gieger,Anette P. Gjesing,Anuj Goel,Philippe Goyette,Harald Grallert,Jürgen Grässler,Danielle M. Greenawalt,C J Groves,Vilmundur Gudnason,Candace Guiducci,A.-L. Hartikainen,N Hassanali,Alistair S. Hall,Aki S. Havulinna,Caroline Hayward,Andrew C. Heath,Christian Hengstenberg,Andrew A. Hicks,Anke Hinney,Albert Hofman,G. Homuth,Jennie Hui,Wilmar Igl,Carlos Iribarren,Bo Isomaa,Kevin B. Jacobs,Ivonne Jarick,Elizabeth S. Jewell,Ulrich John,Torben Jørgensen,P. Jousilahti,A. Jula,Marika Kaakinen,Eero Kajantie,Lee M. Kaplan,Sekar Kathiresan,Johannes Kettunen,Leena Kinnunen,Joshua W. Knowles,Ivana Kolcic,Inke R. König,Seppo Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Johanna Kuusisto,Peter Kraft,Kirsti Kvaløy,Jaana Laitinen,Olivier Lantieri,Chiara Lanzani,Lenore J. Launer,Cécile Lecoeur,Terho Lehtimäki,Guillaume Lettre,Jianjun Liu,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Mattias Lorentzon,Robert Luben,Barbara Ludwig,Paolo Manunta,Diana Marek,Michel Marre,Nicholas G. Martin,Wendy L. McArdle,Alun D. McCarthy,Barbara McKnight,Thomas Meitinger,Olle Melander,David Meyre,Kristian Midthjell,Grant W. Montgomery,M. A. Morken,Andrew P. Morris,Rosanda Mulić,Julius S. Ngwa,Mari Nelis,Matt Neville,Dale R. Nyholt,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Stephen O'Rahilly,Ken K. Ong,Ben A. Oostra,Guillaume Paré,Alex N. Parker,Markus Perola,Irene Pichler,Kirsi H. Pietiläinen,Carl Platou,Ozren Polasek,A Pouta,Suzanne Rafelt,Olli T. Raitakari,Nigel W. Rayner,Martin Ridderstråle,Winfried Rief,Aimo Ruokonen,Neil R. Robertson,Peter Rzehak,Veikko Salomaa,Alan R. Sanders,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Serena Sanna,Jouko Saramies,Markku J. Savolainen,S. Scherag,Sabine Schipf,Stefan Schreiber,Heribert Schunkert,Kaisa Silander,Juha Sinisalo,David S. Siscovick,J.H. Smit,Nicole Soranzo,Ulla Sovio,J. Stephens,Ida Surakka,Amy J. Swift,M. L. Tammesoo,Jean-Claude Tardif,Maris Teder-Laving,Tanya M. Teslovich,John R. Thompson,Brian Thomson,A Tönjes,Tiinamaija Tuomi,J.B. van Meurs,G.J.B. van Ommen,Vincent Vatin,Jorma Viikari,Sophie Visvikis-Siest,Veronique Vitart,Charlotte Vogel,Benjamin F. Voight,Lindsay L. Waite,Henri Wallaschofski,G B Walters,E. Widen,Susanna Wiegand,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Daniel R. Witte,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,Jianfeng Xu,Qunyuan Zhang,Lina Zgaga,Andreas Ziegler,P. Zitting,John Beilby,I S Farooqi,Johannes Hebebrand,Heikki V. Huikuri,Alan L. James,Mika Kähönen,Douglas F. Levinson,Fabio Macciardi,Markku S. Nieminen,Claes Ohlsson,Lyle J. Palmer,Paul M. Ridker,Michael Stumvoll,Jacques S. Beckmann,H. Boeing,Eric Boerwinkle,Dorret I. Boomsma,Mark J. Caulfield,Stephen J. Chanock,Francis S. Collins,L. A. Cupples,George Davey Smith,Jeanette Erdmann,Philippe Froguel,Henrik Grönberg,Ulf Gyllensten,Per Hall,Torben Hansen,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Richard B. Hayes,Joachim Heinrich,Frank B. Hu,Kristian Hveem,Thomas Illig,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Jaakko Kaprio,Fredrik Karpe,Kay-Tee Khaw,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Heiko Krude,Markku Laakso,Debbie A Lawlor,Andres Metspalu,Patricia B. Munroe,Willem H. Ouwehand,Oluf Pedersen,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Annette Peters,Peter P. Pramstaller,Thomas Quertermous,Thomas Reinehr,A. Rissanen,Igor Rudan,Nilesh J. Samani,Peter Schwarz,Alan R. Shuldiner,Tim D. Spector,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Manuela Uda,André G. Uitterlinden,Valle Tt,Martin Wabitsch,G. Waeber,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,James F. Wilson,Alan F. Wright,M. C. Zillikens,Nilanjan Chatterjee,Steven A. McCarroll,Shaun Purcell,Eric E. Schadt,Peter M. Visscher,Themistocles L. Assimes,Ingrid B. Borecki,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Leif Groop,Talin Haritunians,David J. Hunter,Robert C. Kaplan,Karen L. Mohlke,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Leena Peltonen,David Schlessinger,David P. Strachan,C M van Duijn,H. E. Wichmann,Timothy M. Frayling,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Inês Barroso,Michael Boehnke,Kari Stefansson,Kari E. North,Mark I. McCarthy,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Erik Ingelsson,Ruth J. F. Loos +374 more
TL;DR: 18 new loci associated with body mass index are identified, one of which includes a copy number variant near GPRC5B, and genes in other newly associated loci may provide new insights into human body weight regulation.
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Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study
Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Gina M. Peloso,Gina M. Peloso,Marju Orho-Melander,Ruth Frikke-Schmidt,Maja Barbalić,Majken K. Jensen,George Hindy,Hilma Holm,Eric L. Ding,Toby Johnson,Heribert Schunkert,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Robert Clarke,Jemma C. Hopewell,John F. Thompson,Mingyao Li,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Kiran Musunuru,Kiran Musunuru,James P. Pirruccello,James P. Pirruccello,Danish Saleheen,Li Chen,Alexandre F.R. Stewart,Arne Schillert,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Gudmundur Thorgeirsson,Sonia S. Anand,James C. Engert,Thomas M. Morgan,John A. Spertus,Monika Stoll,Klaus Berger,Nicola Martinelli,Domenico Girelli,Pascal P. McKeown,Christopher Patterson,Stephen E. Epstein,Joseph M. Devaney,Mary Susan Burnett,Vincent Mooser,Samuli Ripatti,Ida Surakka,Markku S. Nieminen,Juha Sinisalo,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Markus Perola,Aki S. Havulinna,Ulf de Faire,Bruna Gigante,Erik Ingelsson,Tanja Zeller,Philipp S. Wild,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Olaf H. Klungel,Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee,Bas J M Peters,Anthonius de Boer,Diederick E. Grobbee,Pieter Willem Kamphuisen,Vera H.M. Deneer,Clara C. Elbers,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Marten H. Hofker,Cisca Wijmenga,W. M. Monique Verschuren,Jolanda M. A. Boer,Yvonne T. van der Schouw,Asif Rasheed,Philippe M. Frossard,Serkalem Demissie,Serkalem Demissie,Cristen J. Willer,Ron Do,Jose M. Ordovas,Jose M. Ordovas,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Michael Boehnke,Karen L. Mohlke,Mark J. Daly,Mark J. Daly,Candace Guiducci,Noël P. Burtt,Aarti Surti,Elena Gonzalez,Shaun Purcell,Shaun Purcell,Stacey Gabriel,Jaume Marrugat,John F. Peden,Jeanette Erdmann,Patrick Diemert,Christina Willenborg,Inke R. König,Marcus Fischer,Christian Hengstenberg,Andreas Ziegler,Ian Buysschaert,Diether Lambrechts,Frans Van de Werf,Keith A.A. Fox,Nour Eddine El Mokhtari,Diana Rubin,Jürgen Schrezenmeir,Stefan Schreiber,Arne Schäfer,John Danesh,Stefan Blankenberg,Robert Roberts,Ruth McPherson,Hugh Watkins,Alistair S. Hall,Kim Overvad,Eric B. Rimm,Eric Boerwinkle,Anne Tybjærg-Hansen,L. Adrienne Cupples,L. Adrienne Cupples,Muredach P. Reilly,Olle Melander,Pier Mannuccio Mannucci,Diego Ardissino,David S. Siscovick,Roberto Elosua,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Veikko Salomaa,Daniel J. Rader,Leena Peltonen,Leena Peltonen,Stephen M. Schwartz,David Altshuler,Sekar Kathiresan +140 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a Mendelian randomisation analysis was performed to compare the effect of HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and genetic score on risk of myocardial infarction.
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Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height
Hana Lango Allen,Karol Estrada,Guillaume Lettre,Sonja I. Berndt,Michael N. Weedon,Fernando Rivadeneira,Cristen J. Willer,Anne U. Jackson,Sailaja Vedantam,Sailaja Vedantam,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Teresa Ferreira,Andrew R. Wood,Robert J. Weyant,Ayellet V. Segrè,Ayellet V. Segrè,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Eleanor Wheeler,Nicole Soranzo,Nicole Soranzo,Ju-Hyun Park,Jian Yang,Daniel F. Gudbjartsson,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Joshua C. Randall,Lu Qi,Albert V. Smith,Reedik Mägi,Tomi Pastinen,Liming Liang,Iris M. Heid,Jian'an Luan,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Thomas W. Winkler,Michael E. Goddard,Michael E. Goddard,Ken Sin Lo,Cameron D. Palmer,Cameron D. Palmer,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Yurii S. Aulchenko,Åsa Johansson,Åsa Johansson,M. Carola Zillikens,Mary F. Feitosa,Tõnu Esko,Tõnu Esko,Toby Johnson,Toby Johnson,Toby Johnson,Shamika Ketkar,Peter Kraft,Massimo Mangino,Inga Prokopenko,Devin Absher,Eva Albrecht,Florian Ernst,Nicole L. Glazer,Caroline Hayward,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Kevin B. Jacobs,Joshua W. Knowles,Zoltán Kutalik,Zoltán Kutalik,Keri L. Monda,Ozren Polasek,Michael Preuss,Nigel W. Rayner,Neil R. Robertson,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Jonathan Tyrer,Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Fredrik Wiklund,Jianfeng Xu,Jing Hua Zhao,Dale R. Nyholt,Niina Pellikka,Niina Pellikka,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,John Perry,Ida Surakka,Ida Surakka,Mari Liis Tammesoo,Elizabeth L. Altmaier,Elizabeth L. Altmaier,Najaf Amin,Thor Aspelund,Tushar Bhangale,Gabrielle Boucher,Daniel I. Chasman,Constance Chen,Lachlan J. M. Coin,Mark E. Cooper,Anna L. Dixon,Quince Gibson,Elin Grundberg,Elin Grundberg,Ke Hao,M. Juhani Junttila,Lee M. Kaplan,Johannes Kettunen,Johannes Kettunen,Inke R. König,Tony Kwan,Robert W. Lawrence,Douglas F. Levinson,Mattias Lorentzon,Barbara McKnight,Andrew P. Morris,Martina Müller,Julius S. Ngwa,Shaun Purcell,Shaun Purcell,Suzanne Rafelt,Rany M. Salem,Rany M. Salem,Erika Salvi,Serena Sanna,Jianxin Shi,Ulla Sovio,John R. Thompson,John R. Thompson,Michael C. Turchin,Michael C. Turchin,Liesbeth Vandenput,Dominique J. Verlaan,Veronique Vitart,Charles C. White,Andreas Ziegler,Peter Almgren,Anthony J. Balmforth,Harry Campbell,Lorena Citterio,Alessandro De Grandi,Anna F. Dominiczak,Jubao Duan,Paul Elliott,Roberto Elosua,Johan G. Eriksson,Nelson B. Freimer,Eco J. C. de Geus,Nicola Glorioso,Shen Haiqing,Anna-Liisa Hartikainen,Aki S. Havulinna,Andrew A. Hicks,Jennie Hui,Jennie Hui,Wilmar Igl,Thomas Illig,Antti Jula,Eero Kajantie,Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen,Markku Koiranen,Ivana Kolcic,Seppo Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Jaana Laitinen,Jianjun Liu,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Ana Marušić,Andrea Maschio,Thomas Meitinger,Antonella Mulas,Guillaume Paré,Alex N. Parker,John F. Peden,Astrid Petersmann,Irene Pichler,Kirsi H. Pietiläinen,Anneli Pouta,Anneli Pouta,Martin Ridderstråle,Jerome I. Rotter,Jennifer G. Sambrook,Jennifer G. Sambrook,Alan R. Sanders,Carsten Oliver Schmidt,Juha Sinisalo,Jan Smit,Heather M. Stringham,G. Bragi Walters,Elisabeth Widen,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Laura Zagato,Lina Zgaga,Paavo Zitting,Helene Alavere,Martin Farrall,Wendy L. McArdle,Mari Nelis,Mari Nelis,Marjolein J. Peters,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Joyce B. J. van Meurs,Katja K.H. Aben,Kristin G. Ardlie,Jacques S. Beckmann,John Beilby,John Beilby,Richard N. Bergman,Sven Bergmann,Sven Bergmann,Francis S. Collins,Daniele Cusi,Martin den Heijer,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Pablo V. Gejman,Alistair S. Hall,Anders Hamsten,Heikki V. Huikuri,Carlos Iribarren,Carlos Iribarren,Mika Kähönen,Jaakko Kaprio,Jaakko Kaprio,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Thomas D. Kocher,Lenore J. Launer,Terho Lehtimäki,Olle Melander,Thomas H. Mosley,Arthur W. Musk,Arthur W. Musk,Markku S. Nieminen,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Claes Ohlsson,Ben A. Oostra,Lyle J. Palmer,Lyle J. Palmer,Olli T. Raitakari,Paul M. Ridker,John D. Rioux,Aila Rissanen,Carlo Rivolta,Heribert Schunkert,Alan R. Shuldiner,Alan R. Shuldiner,David S. Siscovick,Michael Stumvoll,Anke Tönjes,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Gert-Jan B. van Ommen,Jorma Viikari,Andrew C. Heath,Nicholas G. Martin,Grant W. Montgomery,Michael A. Province,Manfred Kayser,Alice M. Arnold,Larry D. Atwood,Eric Boerwinkle,Stephen J. Chanock,Panos Deloukas,Christian Gieger,Henrik Grönberg,Per Hall,Andrew T. Hattersley,Christian Hengstenberg,Wolfgang Hoffman,G. Mark Lathrop,Veikko Salomaa,Stefan Schreiber,Manuela Uda,Dawn M. Waterworth,Alan F. Wright,Themistocles L. Assimes,Inês Barroso,Inês Barroso,Albert Hofman,Karen L. Mohlke,Dorret I. Boomsma,Mark J. Caulfield,L. Adrienne Cupples,Jeanette Erdmann,Caroline S. Fox,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,Tamara B. Harris,Richard B. Hayes,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Vincent Mooser,Patricia B. Munroe,Willem H. Ouwehand,Willem H. Ouwehand,Willem H. Ouwehand,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Peter P. Pramstaller,Thomas Quertermous,Igor Rudan,Igor Rudan,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Tim D. Spector,Henry Völzke,Hugh Watkins,James F. Wilson,Leif Groop,Talin Haritunians,Frank B. Hu,Robert C. Kaplan,Andres Metspalu,Andres Metspalu,Kari E. North,David Schlessinger,Nicholas J. Wareham,David J. Hunter,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,David P. Strachan,H.-Erich Wichmann,Ingrid B. Borecki,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Eric E. Schadt,Eric E. Schadt,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Leena Peltonen,André G. Uitterlinden,Peter M. Visscher,Nilanjan Chatterjee,Ruth J. F. Loos,Michael Boehnke,Mark I. McCarthy,Erik Ingelsson,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Timothy M. Frayling,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Joel N. Hirschhorn +344 more
TL;DR: It is shown that hundreds of genetic variants, in at least 180 loci, influence adult height, a highly heritable and classic polygenic trait, and indicates that GWA studies can identify large numbers of loci that implicate biologically relevant genes and pathways.