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Christian Gieger
Researcher at Helmholtz Zentrum München
Publications - 673
Citations - 131189
Christian Gieger is an academic researcher from Helmholtz Zentrum München. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Population. The author has an hindex of 157, co-authored 617 publications receiving 113657 citations. Previous affiliations of Christian Gieger include Pennington Biomedical Research Center & Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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Host-microbe interactions have shaped the genetic architecture of inflammatory bowel disease
Luke Jostins,Stephan Ripke,Rinse K. Weersma,Richard H. Duerr,Dermot P.B. McGovern,Ken Y. Hui,James Lee,L. Philip Schumm,Yashoda Sharma,Carl A. Anderson,Jonah Essers,Mitja Mitrovic,Kaida Ning,Isabelle Cleynen,Emilie Theatre,Sarah L. Spain,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Philippe Goyette,Zhi Wei,Clara Abraham,Jean-Paul Achkar,Tariq Ahmad,Leila Amininejad,Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan,Vibeke Andersen,Jane M. Andrews,Leonard Baidoo,Tobias Balschun,Peter A. Bampton,Alain Bitton,Gabrielle Boucher,Stephan Brand,Carsten Büning,Ariella Cohain,Sven Cichon,Mauro D'Amato,Dirk De Jong,Kathy L Devaney,Marla Dubinsky,Cathryn Edwards,David Ellinghaus,Lynnette R. Ferguson,Denis Franchimont,Karin Fransen,Richard B. Gearry,Michel Georges,Christian Gieger,Jürgen Glas,Talin Haritunians,Ailsa Hart,Christopher J. Hawkey,Matija Hedl,Xinli Hu,Tom H. Karlsen,Limas Kupčinskas,Subra Kugathasan,Anna Latiano,Debby Laukens,Ian C. Lawrance,Charlie W. Lees,Edouard Louis,Gillian Mahy,John C. Mansfield,Angharad R. Morgan,Craig Mowat,William G. Newman,Orazio Palmieri,Cyriel Y. Ponsioen,Uroš Potočnik,Natalie J. Prescott,Miguel Regueiro,Jerome I. Rotter,Richard K Russell,Jeremy D. Sanderson,Miquel Sans,Jack Satsangi,Stefan Schreiber,Lisa A. Simms,Jurgita Sventoraityte,Stephan R. Targan,Kent D. Taylor,Mark Tremelling,Hein W. Verspaget,Martine De Vos,Cisca Wijmenga,David C. Wilson,Juliane Winkelmann,Ramnik J. Xavier,Sebastian Zeissig,Bin Zhang,Clarence K. Zhang,Hongyu Zhao,Mark S. Silverberg,Vito Annese,Hakon Hakonarson,Steven R. Brant,Graham L. Radford-Smith,Christopher G. Mathew,John D. Rioux,Eric E. Schadt,Mark J. Daly,Andre Franke,Miles Parkes,Severine Vermeire,Jeffrey C. Barrett,Judy H. Cho +105 more
TL;DR: A meta-analysis of Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis genome-wide association scans is undertaken, followed by extensive validation of significant findings, with a combined total of more than 75,000 cases and controls.
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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.
Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
Adam E. Locke,Bratati Kahali,Sonja I. Berndt,Anne E. Justice,Tune H. Pers,Felix R. Day,Corey Powell,Sailaja Vedantam,Martin L. Buchkovich,Jian Yang,Damien C. Croteau-Chonka,Tõnu Esko,Tove Fall,Teresa Ferreira,Stefan Gustafsson,Zoltán Kutalik,Jian'an Luan,Reedik Mägi,Joshua C. Randall,Thomas W. Winkler,Andrew R. Wood,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Jessica D. Faul,Jennifer A. Smith,Jing Hua Zhao,Wei Zhao,Jin Chen,Rudolf S N Fehrmann,Åsa K. Hedman,Juha Karjalainen,Ellen M. Schmidt,Devin Absher,Najaf Amin,Denise Anderson,Marian Beekman,Jennifer L. Bolton,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Steven Buyske,Ayse Demirkan,Guohong Deng,Georg Ehret,Bjarke Feenstra,Mary F. Feitosa,Krista Fischer,Anuj Goel,Jian Gong,Anne U. Jackson,Stavroula Kanoni,Marcus E. Kleber,Kati Kristiansson,Unhee Lim,Vaneet Lotay,Massimo Mangino,Irene Mateo Leach,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Sarah E. Medland,Mike A. Nalls,Cameron D. Palmer,Dorota Pasko,Sonali Pechlivanis,Marjolein Peters,Inga Prokopenko,Dmitry Shungin,Alena Stančáková,Rona J. Strawbridge,Yun Ju Sung,Toshiko Tanaka,Alexander Teumer,Stella Trompet,Sander W. van der Laan,Jessica van Setten,Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,Zhaoming Wang,Loic Yengo,Weihua Zhang,Aaron Isaacs,Eva Albrecht,Johan Ärnlöv,Gillian M. Arscott,Antony P. Attwood,Stefania Bandinelli,Amy Barrett,Isabelita Bas,Claire Bellis,Amanda J. Bennett,Christian Berne,Roza Blagieva,Matthias Blüher,Stefan Böhringer,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Yvonne Böttcher,Heather A. Boyd,Marcel Bruinenberg,Ida Henriette Caspersen,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Robert Clarke,E. Warwick Daw,Anton J. M. de Craen,Graciela E. Delgado,Maria Dimitriou,Alex S. F. Doney,Niina Eklund,Karol Estrada,Elodie Eury,Lasse Folkersen,Ross M. Fraser,Melissa E. Garcia,Frank Geller,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Bruna Gigante,Alan S. Go,Alain Golay,Alison H. Goodall,Scott D. Gordon,Mathias Gorski,Hans-Jörgen Grabe,Harald Grallert,Tanja B. Grammer,Jürgen Gräßler,Henrik Grönberg,Christopher J. Groves,Gaëlle Gusto,Jeffrey Haessler,Per Hall,Toomas Haller,Göran Hallmans,Catharina A. Hartman,Maija Hassinen,Caroline Hayward,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Quinta Helmer,Christian Hengstenberg,Oddgeir L. Holmen,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Alan James,Janina M. Jeff,Åsa Johansson,Jennifer Jolley,Thorhildur Juliusdottir,Leena Kinnunen,Wolfgang Koenig,Markku Koskenvuo,Wolfgang Kratzer,Jaana Laitinen,Claudia Lamina,Karin Leander,Nanette R. Lee,Peter Lichtner,Lars Lind,Jaana Lindström,Ken Sin Lo,Stéphane Lobbens,Roberto Lorbeer,Yingchang Lu,François Mach,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Anubha Mahajan,Wendy L. McArdle,Stela McLachlan,Cristina Menni,Sigrun Merger,Evelin Mihailov,Lili Milani,Alireza Moayyeri,Keri L. Monda,Mario A. Morken,Antonella Mulas,Gabriele Müller,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Arthur W. Musk,Ramaiah Nagaraja,Markus M. Nöthen,Ilja M. Nolte,Stefan Pilz,Nigel W. Rayner,Frida Renström,Rainer Rettig,Janina S. Ried,Stephan Ripke,Neil R. Robertson,Lynda M. Rose,Serena Sanna,Hubert Scharnagl,Salome Scholtens,Fredrick R. Schumacher,William R. Scott,Thomas Seufferlein,Jianxin Shi,Albert V. Smith,Joanna Smolonska,Alice Stanton,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Kathleen Stirrups,Heather M. Stringham,Johan Sundström,Morris A. Swertz,Amy J. Swift,Ann-Christine Syvänen,Sian-Tsung Tan,Bamidele O. Tayo,Barbara Thorand,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Jonathan Tyrer,Hae-Won Uh,Liesbeth Vandenput,Frank C. Verhulst,Sita H. Vermeulen,Niek Verweij,Judith M. Vonk,Lindsay L. Waite,Helen R. Warren,Dawn M. Waterworth,Michael N. Weedon,Lynne R. Wilkens,Christina Willenborg,Tom Wilsgaard,Mary K. Wojczynski,Andrew Wong,Alan F. Wright,Qunyuan Zhang,Eoin P. Brennan,Murim Choi,Zari Dastani,Alexander W. Drong,Per Eriksson,Anders Franco-Cereceda,Jesper R. Gådin,Ali G. Gharavi,Michael E. Goddard,Robert E. Handsaker,Jinyan Huang,Fredrik Karpe,Sekar Kathiresan,Sarah Keildson,Krzysztof Kiryluk,Michiaki Kubo,Jong-Young Lee,Liming Liang,Richard P. Lifton,Baoshan Ma,Steven A. McCarroll,Amy Jayne McKnight,Josine L. Min,Miriam F. Moffatt,Grant W. Montgomery,Joanne M. Murabito,George Nicholson,Dale R. Nyholt,Yukinori Okada,John R. B. Perry,Rajkumar Dorajoo,Eva Reinmaa,Rany M. Salem,Niina Sandholm,Robert A. Scott,Lisette Stolk,Atsushi Takahashi,Toshihiro Tanaka,Ferdinand M. van't Hooft,Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen,Harm-Jan Westra,Wei Zheng,Krina T. Zondervan,Andrew C. Heath,Dominique Arveiler,Stephan J. L. Bakker,John Beilby,Richard N. Bergman,John Blangero,Pascal Bovet,Harry Campbell,Mark J. Caulfield,Giancarlo Cesana,Aravinda Chakravarti,Daniel I. Chasman,Peter S. Chines,Francis S. Collins,Dana C. Crawford,L. Adrienne Cupples,Daniele Cusi,John Danesh,Ulf de Faire,Hester M. den Ruijter,Anna F. Dominiczak,Raimund Erbel,Jeanette Erdmann,Johan G. Eriksson,Martin Farrall,Stephan B. Felix,Ele Ferrannini,Jean Ferrières,Ian Ford,Nita G. Forouhi,Terrence Forrester,Oscar H. Franco,Ron T. Gansevoort,Pablo V. Gejman,Christian Gieger,Omri Gottesman,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,Alistair S. Hall,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Andrew A. Hicks,Lucia A. Hindorff,Aroon D. Hingorani,Albert Hofman,Georg Homuth,G. Kees Hovingh,Steve E. Humphries,Steven C. Hunt,Elina Hyppönen,Thomas Illig,Kevin B. Jacobs,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Berit Johansen,Pekka Jousilahti,J. Wouter Jukema,Antti Jula,Jaakko Kaprio,John J.P. Kastelein,Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Paul Knekt,Jaspal S. Kooner,Charles Kooperberg,Peter Kovacs,Aldi T. Kraja,Meena Kumari,Johanna Kuusisto,Timo A. Lakka,Claudia Langenberg,Loic Le Marchand,Terho Lehtimäki,Valeriya Lyssenko,Satu Männistö,André Marette,Tara C. Matise,Colin A. McKenzie,Barbara McKnight,Frans L. Moll,Andrew D. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Jeffrey C. Murray,Mari Nelis,Claes Ohlsson,Albertine J. Oldehinkel,Ken K. Ong,Pamela A. F. Madden,Gerard Pasterkamp,John F. Peden,Annette Peters,Dirkje S. Postma,Peter P. Pramstaller,Jackie F. Price,Lu Qi,Olli T. Raitakari,Tuomo Rankinen,Dabeeru C. Rao,Treva Rice,Paul M. Ridker,John D. Rioux,Marylyn D. Ritchie,Igor Rudan,Veikko Salomaa,Nilesh J. Samani,Jouko Saramies,Mark A. Sarzynski,Heribert Schunkert,Peter Schwarz,Peter S. Sever,Alan R. Shuldiner,Juha Sinisalo,Ronald P. Stolk,Konstantin Strauch,Anke Tönjes,David-Alexandre Trégouët,Angelo Tremblay,Elena Tremoli,Jarmo Virtamo,Marie-Claude Vohl,Uwe Völker,Gérard Waeber,Gonneke Willemsen,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,M. Carola Zillikens,Linda S. Adair,Philippe Amouyel,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Themistocles L. Assimes,Murielle Bochud,Bernhard O. Boehm,Eric Boerwinkle,Stefan R. Bornstein,Erwin P. Bottinger,Claude Bouchard,Stéphane Cauchi,John C. Chambers,Stephen J. Chanock,Richard S. Cooper,Paul I.W. de Bakker,George Dedoussis,Luigi Ferrucci,Paul W. Franks,Philippe Froguel,Leif Groop,Christopher A. Haiman,Anders Hamsten,Jennie Hui,David J. Hunter,Kristian Hveem,Robert C. Kaplan,Mika Kivimäki,Diana Kuh,Markku Laakso,Yongmei Liu,Nicholas G. Martin,Winfried März,Mads Melbye,Andres Metspalu,Susanne Moebus,Patricia B. Munroe,Inger Njølstad,Ben A. Oostra,Colin N. A. Palmer,Nancy L. Pedersen,Markus Perola,Louis Pérusse,Ulrike Peters,Chris Power,Thomas Quertermous,Rainer Rauramaa,Fernando Rivadeneira,Timo Saaristo,Danish Saleheen,Naveed Sattar,Eric E. Schadt,David Schlessinger,P. Eline Slagboom,Harold Snieder,Tim D. Spector,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Michael Stumvoll,Jaakko Tuomilehto,André G. Uitterlinden,Matti Uusitupa,Pim van der Harst,Mark Walker,Henri Wallaschofski,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,David R. Weir,H-Erich Wichmann,James F. Wilson,Pieter Zanen,Ingrid B. Borecki,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Iris M. Heid,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,David P. Strachan,Kari Stefansson,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Lude Franke,Timothy M. Frayling,Mark I. McCarthy,Peter M. Visscher,André Scherag,Cristen J. Willer,Michael Boehnke,Karen L. Mohlke,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Jacques S. Beckmann,Inês Barroso,Kari E. North,Erik Ingelsson,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Ruth J. F. Loos,Elizabeth K. Speliotes +481 more
TL;DR: This paper conducted a genome-wide association study and meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals.
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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.
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Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels
Cristen J. Willer,Ellen M. Schmidt,Sebanti Sengupta,Gina M. Peloso,Gina M. Peloso,Gina M. Peloso,Stefan Gustafsson,Stavroula Kanoni,Andrea Ganna,Andrea Ganna,Jin Chen,Martin L. Buchkovich,Samia Mora,Jacques S. Beckmann,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Hsing-Yi Chang,Ayse Demirkan,Heleen M. den Hertog,Ron Do,Louise A. Donnelly,Georg Ehret,Georg Ehret,Tõnu Esko,Tõnu Esko,Mary F. Feitosa,Teresa Ferreira,Krista Fischer,Pierre Fontanillas,Ross M. Fraser,Daniel F. Freitag,Deepti Gurdasani,Deepti Gurdasani,Kauko Heikkilä,Elina Hyppönen,Aaron Isaacs,Anne U. Jackson,Åsa Johansson,Toby Johnson,Marika Kaakinen,Johannes Kettunen,Johannes Kettunen,Marcus E. Kleber,Marcus E. Kleber,Xiaohui Li,Jian'an Luan,Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Massimo Mangino,Evelin Mihailov,May E. Montasser,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Ilja M. Nolte,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Cameron D. Palmer,Cameron D. Palmer,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Ann-Kristin Petersen,Serena Sanna,Richa Saxena,Sonia Shah,Dmitry Shungin,Dmitry Shungin,Carlo Sidore,Carlo Sidore,Ci Song,Ci Song,Rona J. Strawbridge,Ida Surakka,Ida Surakka,Toshiko Tanaka,Tanya M. Teslovich,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Evita G. Van Den Herik,Benjamin F. Voight,Kelly A. Volcik,Lindsay L. Waite,Andrew Wong,Ying Wu,Weihua Zhang,Weihua Zhang,Devin Absher,Gershim Asiki,Inês Barroso,Inês Barroso,Inês Barroso,Latonya F. Been,Jennifer L. Bolton,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Paolo Brambilla,Mary Susan Burnett,Giancarlo Cesana,Maria Dimitriou,Alex S. F. Doney,Angela Döring,Paul Elliott,Paul Elliott,Stephen E. Epstein,Gudmundur I. Eyjolfsson,Bruna Gigante,Mark O. Goodarzi,Harald Grallert,Martha L. Gravito,Christopher J. Groves,Göran Hallmans,Anna-Liisa Hartikainen,Caroline Hayward,Dena G. Hernandez,Andrew A. Hicks,Hilma Holm,Yi Jen Hung,Thomas Illig,Matthew Jones,Pontiano Kaleebu,John J.P. Kastelein,Kay-Tee Khaw,Eric Kim,Norman Klopp,Pirjo Komulainen,Meena Kumari,Claudia Langenberg,Terho Lehtimäki,Shih-Yi Lin,Jaana Lindström,Ruth J. F. Loos,Ruth J. F. Loos,François Mach,Wendy L. McArdle,Christa Meisinger,Braxton D. Mitchell,Gabrielle Müller,Ramaiah Nagaraja,Narisu Narisu,Tuomo Nieminen,Rebecca N. Nsubuga,Isleifur Olafsson,Ken K. Ong,Ken K. Ong,Aarno Palotie,Aarno Palotie,Theodore Papamarkou,Theodore Papamarkou,Theodore Papamarkou,Cristina Pomilla,Cristina Pomilla,Anneli Pouta,Anneli Pouta,Daniel J. Rader,Muredach P. Reilly,Paul M. Ridker,Fernando Rivadeneira,Igor Rudan,Aimo Ruokonen,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Hubert Scharnagl,Janet Seeley,Janet Seeley,Kaisa Silander,Kaisa Silander,Alena Stančáková,Kathleen Stirrups,Amy J. Swift,Laurence Tiret,André G. Uitterlinden,L. Joost van Pelt,Sailaja Vedantam,Sailaja Vedantam,Nicholas W.J. Wainwright,Nicholas W.J. Wainwright,Cisca Wijmenga,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Tom Wilsgaard,James F. Wilson,Elizabeth H. Young,Elizabeth H. Young,Jing Hua Zhao,Linda S. Adair,Dominique Arveiler,Themistocles L. Assimes,Stefania Bandinelli,Franklyn I. Bennett,Murielle Bochud,Bernhard O. Boehm,Bernhard O. Boehm,Dorret I. Boomsma,Ingrid B. Borecki,Stefan R. Bornstein,Pascal Bovet,Michel Burnier,Harry Campbell,Aravinda Chakravarti,John C. Chambers,John C. Chambers,John C. Chambers,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Francis S. Collins,Richard S. Cooper,John Danesh,George Dedoussis,Ulf de Faire,Alan B. Feranil,Jean Ferrières,Luigi Ferrucci,Nelson B. Freimer,Christian Gieger,Leif Groop,Leif Groop,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,Anders Hamsten,Tamara B. Harris,Aroon D. Hingorani,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Albert Hofman,G. Kees Hovingh,Chao A. Hsiung,Steve E. Humphries,Steven C. Hunt,Kristian Hveem,Carlos Iribarren,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Antti Jula,Mika Kähönen,Jaakko Kaprio,Jaakko Kaprio,Antero Kesäniemi,Mika Kivimäki,Jaspal S. Kooner,Jaspal S. Kooner,Jaspal S. Kooner,Peter J. Koudstaal,Ronald M. Krauss,Diana Kuh,Johanna Kuusisto,Kirsten Ohm Kyvik,Markku Laakso,Timo A. Lakka,Timo A. Lakka,Lars Lind,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Nicholas G. Martin,Winfried März,Winfried März,Winfried März,Mark I. McCarthy,Colin A. McKenzie,Pierre Meneton,Andres Metspalu,Leena Moilanen,Andrew D. Morris,Patricia B. Munroe,Inger Njølstad,Nancy L. Pedersen,Chris Power,Peter P. Pramstaller,Peter P. Pramstaller,Jackie F. Price,Bruce M. Psaty,Bruce M. Psaty,Thomas Quertermous,Rainer Rauramaa,Rainer Rauramaa,Danish Saleheen,Danish Saleheen,Veikko Salomaa,Dharambir K. Sanghera,Jouko Saramies,Peter Schwarz,Wayne Huey-Herng Sheu,Alan R. Shuldiner,Alan R. Shuldiner,Agneta Siegbahn,Tim D. Spector,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,David P. Strachan,Bamidele O. Tayo,Elena Tremoli,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Matti Uusitupa,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Peter Vollenweider,Lars Wallentin,Nicholas J. Wareham,John Whitfield,Bruce H. R. Wolffenbuttel,Jose M. Ordovas,Jose M. Ordovas,Eric Boerwinkle,Colin N. A. Palmer,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Daniel I. Chasman,Jerome I. Rotter,Paul W. Franks,Paul W. Franks,Paul W. Franks,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,L. Adrienne Cupples,L. Adrienne Cupples,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Stephen S. Rich,Michael Boehnke,Panos Deloukas,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Karen L. Mohlke,Erik Ingelsson,Erik Ingelsson,Gonçalo R. Abecasis +319 more
TL;DR: It is found that loci associated with blood lipid levels are often associated with cardiovascular and metabolic traits, including coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, blood pressure, waist-hip ratio and body mass index.