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Debbie A Lawlor
Researcher at University of Bristol
Publications - 1118
Citations - 118183
Debbie A Lawlor is an academic researcher from University of Bristol. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Body mass index. The author has an hindex of 147, co-authored 1114 publications receiving 101123 citations. Previous affiliations of Debbie A Lawlor include Southampton General Hospital & University of Vermont.
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Indicators of socioeconomic position (part 1)
TL;DR: This glossary presents a comprehensive list of indicators of socioeconomic position used in health research, with a description of what they intend to measure and how data are elicited and the advantages and limitation of the indicators.
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New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk
Josée Dupuis,Josée Dupuis,Claudia Langenberg,Inga Prokopenko,Richa Saxena,Richa Saxena,Nicole Soranzo,Nicole Soranzo,Anne U. Jackson,Eleanor Wheeler,Nicole L. Glazer,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Anna L. Gloyn,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Reedik Mägi,Andrew P. Morris,Joshua C. Randall,Toby Johnson,Toby Johnson,Paul Elliott,Paul Elliott,Denis Rybin,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Peter Henneman,Harald Grallert,Abbas Dehghan,Jouke JanHottenga,Christopher S. Franklin,Pau Navarro,Kijoung Song,Anuj Goel,John R. B. Perry,Josephine M. Egan,Taina K. Lajunen,Niels Grarup,Thomas Sparsø,Alex S. F. Doney,Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Heather M. Stringham,Man Li,Stavroula Kanoni,Peter Shrader,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Meena Kumari,Lu Qi,Nicholas J. Timpson,Christian Gieger,Carina Zabena,Ghislain Rocheleau,Erik Ingelsson,Erik Ingelsson,Ping An,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Jian'an Luan,Amanda F. Elliott,Amanda F. Elliott,Steven A. McCarroll,Steven A. McCarroll,Felicity Payne,Rosa Maria Roccasecca,François Pattou,Praveen Sethupathy,Kristin Ardlie,Yavuz Ariyurek,Beverley Balkau,Philip J. Barter,John Beilby,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Rafn Benediktsson,Amanda J. Bennett,Sven Bergmann,Sven Bergmann,Murielle Bochud,Eric Boerwinkle,Amélie Bonnefond,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Knut Borch-Johnsen,Knut Borch-Johnsen,Yvonne Böttcher,Eric J. Brunner,Suzannah Bumpstead,Guillaume Charpentier,Yii Der IdaChen,Peter S. Chines,Robert Clarke,Lachlan J. McOin,Mark E. Cooper,Marilyn C. Cornelis,Gabe Crawford,Laura Crisponi,Ian N. M. Day,Eco J. C. de Geus,Jérôme Delplanque,Christian Dina,Michael R. Erdos,A C Fedson,Antje Fischer-Rosinsky,Nita G. Forouhi,Caroline S. Fox,Caroline S. Fox,Rune R. Frants,Maria GraziaFranzosi,Pilar Galan,Mark O. Goodarzi,J. Graessler,Christopher J. Groves,Scott M. Grundy,Rhian Gwilliam,Ulf Gyllensten,Samy Hadjadj,Göran Hallmans,Naomi Hammond,Xijing Han,Anna LiisaHartikainen,Neelam Hassanali,Caroline Hayward,Simon Heath,Serge Hercberg,Christian Herder,Andrew A. Hicks,David R. Hillman,Aroon D. Hingorani,Albert Hofman,Jennie Hui,Joseph Hung,Joseph Hung,Bo Isomaa,Paul Johnson,Torben Jørgensen,Antti Jula,Marika Kaakinen,Jaakko Kaprio,Jaakko Kaprio,Y. AnteroKesaniemi,Mika Kivimäki,Beatrice Knight,Seppo Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Kirsten Ohm Kyvik,G. Mark Lathrop,Debbie A Lawlor,Olivier Le Bacquer,Cécile Lecoeur,Yun Li,Valeriya Lyssenko,Robert W. Mahley,Massimo Mangino,Alisa K. Manning,María TeresaMartínez-Larrad,Jarred B. McAteer,Jarred B. McAteer,Laura J. McCulloch,Ruth McPherson,Christa Meisinger,David Melzer,David Meyre,Braxton D. Mitchell,Mario A. Morken,Sutapa Mukherjee,Silvia Naitza,Narisu Narisu,Matt Neville,Ben A. Oostra,Marco Orrù,Ruth E. Pakyz,Colin N. Apalmer,Giuseppe Paolisso,Cristian Pattaro,Daniel S. Pearson,John F. Peden,Nancy L. Pedersen,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Andreas Pfeiffer,Irene Pichler,Ozren Polasek,Danielle Posthuma,Simon C. Potter,Anneli Pouta,Michael A. Province,Bruce M. Psaty,Bruce M. Psaty,Wolfgang Rathmann,Nigel W. Rayner,Kenneth Rice,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Fernando Rivadeneira,Michael Roden,Olov Rolandsson,Annelli Sandbæk,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Serena Sanna,Avan Aihie Sayer,Paul Scheet,Laura J. Scott,Udo Seedorf,Stephen J. Sharp,Beverley M. Shields,Gunnar Sigursson,Eric J.G. Sijbrands,Angela Silveira,Laila Simpson,Andrew B. Singleton,Nicholas L. Smith,Nicholas L. Smith,Ulla Sovio,Amy J. Swift,Holly E. Syddall,Ann ChristineSyvänen,Toshiko Tanaka,Toshiko Tanaka,Barbara Thorand,Jean Tichet,Anke Tönjes,Tiinamaija Tuomi,André G. Uitterlinden,Ko Willems van Dijk,Mandy van Hoek,Dhiraj Varma,Sophie Visvikis-Siest,Veronique Vitart,Nicole Vogelzangs,Gerard Waeber,Peter Wagner,Peter Wagner,Andrew Walley,G. BragiWalters,Kim L. Ward,Hugh Watkins,Michael N. Weedon,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Jaqueline C. MWitteman,John W. GYarnell,Eleftheria Zeggini,Eleftheria Zeggini,Diana Zelenika,Björn Zethelius,Björn Zethelius,Guangju Zhai,Jing Hua Zhao,M. Carola Zillikens,Ingrid B. Borecki,Ruth J. F. Loos,Pierre Meneton,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,David M. Nathan,Gordon H. Williams,Andrew T. Hattersley,Kaisa Silander,Kaisa Silander,Veikko Salomaa,George Davey Smith,Stefan R. Bornstein,Peter Schwarz,Joachim Spranger,Fredrik Karpe,Alan R. Shuldiner,Cyrus Cooper,George Dedoussis,Manuel Serrano-Ríos,Andrew D. Morris,Lars Lind,Lyle J. Palmer,Lyle J. Palmer,Frank B. Hu,Paul W. Franks,Shah Ebrahim,Michael Marmot,W. H. Linda Kao,James S. Pankow,Mike Sampson,Johanna Kuusisto,Markku Laakso,Torben Hansen,Torben Hansen,Oluf Pedersen,Oluf Pedersen,Oluf Pedersen,Peter P. Pramstaller,H.-Erich Wichmann,Thomas Illig,Igor Rudan,Igor Rudan,Alan F. Wright,Michael Stumvoll,Harry Campbell,James F. Wilson,Richard N. Bergman,Thomas A. Buchanan,Francis S. Collins,Karen L. Mohlke,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Timo T. Valle,David Altshuler,David Altshuler,Jerome I. Rotter,David S. Siscovick,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Dorret I. Boomsma,Panos Deloukas,Tim D. Spector,Tim D. Spector,Timothy M. Frayling,Luigi Ferrucci,Augustine Kong,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Yurii S. Aulchenko,Antonio Cao,Angelo Scuteri,David Schlessinger,Manuela Uda,Aimo Ruokonen,Marjo Riitta-Järvelin,Marjo Riitta-Järvelin,Dawn M. Waterworth,Peter Vollenweider,Leena Peltonen,Vincent Mooser,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Nicholas J. Wareham,Robert Sladek,Philippe Froguel,Philippe Froguel,Richard M. Watanabe,James B. Meigs,Leif Groop,Michael Boehnke,Mark I. McCarthy,Jose C. Florez,Jose C. Florez,Inês Barroso +339 more
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that genetic studies of glycemic traits can identify type 2 diabetes risk loci, as well as loci containing gene variants that are associated with a modest elevation in glucose levels but are not associated with overt diabetes.
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A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.
Nichole D. Palmer,Caitrin W. McDonough,Pamela J. Hicks,B H Roh,M R Wing,S S An,Jessica M. Hester,Jessica N. Cooke,Meredith A. Bostrom,Megan E. Rudock,Matthew E. Talbert,Joshua P. Lewis,Assiamira Ferrara,Lingyi Lu,Julie T. Ziegler,Michèle M. Sale,Jasmin Divers,Daniel Shriner,Adebowale Adeyemo,Charles N. Rotimi,Ng Mcy.,Carl D. Langefeld,Barry I. Freedman,Donald W. Bowden,Benjamin F. Voight,Laura J. Scott,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Andrew P. Morris,Christian Dina,Ryan P. Welch,Eleftheria Zeggini,Cornelia Huth,Yurii S. Aulchenko,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Laura J. McCulloch,Teresa Ferreira,Harald Grallert,Najaf Amin,Guanming Wu,Cristen J. Willer,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Steven A. McCarroll,Claudia Langenberg,O M Hofmann,Josée Dupuis,Lu Qi,A V Segrè,M. van Hoek,Pau Navarro,Kristin G. Ardlie,Beverley Balkau,Rafn Benediktsson,Amanda J. Bennett,Roza Blagieva,Eric Boerwinkle,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Kristina Bengtsson Boström,Bert Bravenboer,Suzannah Bumpstead,N P Burtt,Guillaume Charpentier,Peter S. Chines,Marilyn C. Cornelis,David Couper,Gabriel Crawford,Doney Asf.,Kathryn Elliott,A L Elliott,Michael R. Erdos,Caroline S. Fox,Christopher S. Franklin,Martha Ganser,Christian Gieger,Niels Grarup,Todd Green,Simon J. Griffin,C J Groves,Candace Guiducci,Samy Hadjadj,N Hassanali,C. Herder,Bo Isomaa,Anne U. Jackson,Johnson Prv.,Torben Jørgensen,Kao Whl.,N Klopp,Augustine Kong,Peter Kraft,Johanna Kuusisto,Torsten Lauritzen,Man Li,Aloysius G Lieverse,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Valeriya Lyssenko,Meghan L. Marré,Thomas Meitinger,Kristian Midthjell,Mario A. Morken,Narisu Narisu,P. M. Nilsson,Katharine R. Owen,Felicity Payne,Perry Jrb.,Petersen A-K.,Carl G. P. Platou,Christine Proença,Inga Prokopenko,Wolfgang Rathmann,N W Rayner,Neil R. Robertson,Ghislain Rocheleau,Michael Roden,Mike Sampson,Richa Saxena,B M Shields,Peter Shrader,Gunnar Sigurdsson,Thomas Sparsø,Klaus Strassburger,Heather M. Stringham,Qi Sun,Amy J. Swift,Barbara Thorand,Jean Tichet,Tiinamaija Tuomi,R. M. van Dam,T.W. van Haeften,T van Herpt,J. V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,G B Walters,Michael N. Weedon,Cisca Wijmenga,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,Richard N. Bergman,Stéphane Cauchi,Francis S. Collins,Anna L. Gloyn,Ulf Gyllensten,Torben Hansen,Winston Hide,Graham A. Hitman,Albert Hofman,David J. Hunter,Kristian Hveem,Markku Laakso,Karen L. Mohlke,Andrew D. Morris,Palmer Cna.,Peter P. Pramstaller,Igor Rudan,Eric J.G. Sijbrands,Lincoln D. Stein,Jaakko Tuomilehto,A.G. Uitterlinden,M Walker,Nicholas J. Wareham,Richard M. Watanabe,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Bernhard O. Boehm,Harry Campbell,Mark J. Daly,Andrew T. Hattersley,Frank B. Hu,James B. Meigs,James S. Pankow,Oluf Pedersen,Wichmann H-E.,Inês Barroso,Jose C. Florez,Timothy M. Frayling,Leif Groop,R Sladek,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,James F. Wilson,Thomas Illig,Philippe Froguel,C M van Duijn,Kari Stefansson,David Altshuler,Michael Boehnke,Mark I. McCarthy,Nicole Soranzo,Eleanor Wheeler,Nicole L. Glazer,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Reedik Mägi,Joshua C. Randall,Toby Johnson,Paul Elliott,Denis Rybin,Peter Henneman,Abbas Dehghan,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Kijoung Song,Anuj Goel,Josephine M. Egan,Taina K. Lajunen,Alex S. F. Doney,Stavroula Kanoni,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Meena Kumari,Nicholas J. Timpson,Carina Zabena,Erik Ingelsson,Ping An,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Jian'an Luan,Amanda F. Elliott,Rosa Maria Roccasecca,François Pattou,Praveen Sethupathy,Yavuz Ariyurek,Philip J. Barter,John Beilby,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Sven Bergmann,Murielle Bochud,Amélie Bonnefond,Knut Borch-Johnsen,Yvonne Böttcher,Eric J. Brunner,Suzannah Bumpstead,Chen Y-Di.,Peter S. Chines,Robert Clarke,Coin Ljm.,Mark E. Cooper,Laura Crisponi,Day Inm.,de Geus Ejc.,Jérôme Delplanque,A C Fedson,Antje Fischer-Rosinsky,Nita G. Forouhi,R.R. Frants,MariaGrazia Franzosi,Pilar Galan,Mark O. Goodarzi,J. Graessler,Scott M. Grundy,R. Gwilliam,Göran Hallmans,Naomi Hammond,Xijing Han,Hartikainen A-L.,Caroline Hayward,Simon C. Heath,Serge Hercberg,Andrew A. Hicks,David R. Hillman,Aroon D. Hingorani,Jennie Hui,Joseph Hung,A. Jula,Marika Kaakinen,Jaakko Kaprio,Y A Kesaniemi,Mika Kivimäki,Beatrice Knight,Sini Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Kirsten Ohm Kyvik,G M Lathrop,Debbie A Lawlor,O Le Bacquer,Cécile Lecoeur,Yun Li,Robert W. Mahley,Massimo Mangino,Alisa K. Manning,María Teresa Martínez-Larrad,Jarred B. McAteer,Ruth McPherson,Christine Meisinger,David Melzer,David Meyre,B. D. Mitchell,Sutapa Mukherjee,Silvia Naitza,Matt J. Neville,B.A. Oostra,Marco Orrù,Ruth E. Pakyz,Giuseppe Paolisso,C. Pattaro,D. Pearson,John F. Peden,Nancy L. Pedersen,M. Perola,Pfeiffer Afh.,Irene Pichler,Ozren Polašek,Danielle Posthuma,Simon C. Potter,Anneli Pouta,M. A. Province,Bruce M. Psaty,Kenneth Rice,Samuli Ripatti,F. Rivadeneira,Olov Rolandsson,A. Sandbaek,M. S. Sandhu,Serena Sanna,Avan Aihie Sayer,Paul Scheet,Udo Seedorf,Stephen J. Sharp,Beverley M. Shields,Sijbrands Ejg.,Angela Silveira,Laila Simpson,Andrew B. Singleton,Nicholas L. Smith,Ulla Sovio,A J Swift,H E Syddall,Syvänen A-C.,Toshiko Tanaka,Anke Tönjes,Andre G. Uitterlinden,K W van Dijk,Dhiraj Varma,Sophie Visvikis-Siest,Veronique Vitart,Nicole Vogelzangs,Gerard Waeber,P J Wagner,Andrew Walley,Kim L. Ward,Hugh Watkins,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Witteman Jcm.,Yarnell Jwg.,Diana Zelenika,Björn Zethelius,Guangju Zhai,Jing Hua Zhao,M. C. Zillikens,Ingrid B. Borecki,Loos Rjf.,Pierre Meneton,Magnusson Pke.,David M. Nathan,Gordon H. Williams,Kaisa Silander,Veikko Salomaa,George Davey Smith,Stefan R. Bornstein,Peter Schwarz,Jochen Spranger,F Karpe,Alan R. Shuldiner,Cyrus Cooper,George Dedoussis,Manuel Serrano-Ríos,Lars Lind,Lyle J. Palmer,Paul W. Franks,Shah Ebrahim,Michael Marmot,Alan F. Wright,Michael Stumvoll,Anders Hamsten,Thomas A. Buchanan,Timo T. Valle,Jerome I. Rotter,David S. Siscovick,Penninx Bwjh.,Dorret I. Boomsma,Panos Deloukas,Tim D. Spector,Luigi Ferrucci,Anyuan Cao,Angelo Scuteri,David Schlessinger,Manuela Uda,Aimo Ruokonen,Jarvelin M-R.,Dawn M. Waterworth,Peter Vollenweider,Leena Peltonen,Vincent Mooser +384 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that multiple loci underlie T2DM susceptibility in the African-American population and that these loci are distinct from those identified in other ethnic populations.
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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Cohort Profile: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children: ALSPAC mothers cohort
Abigail Fraser,Corrie Macdonald-Wallis,Kate Tilling,Andy Boyd,Jean Golding,George Davey Smith,John Henderson,John Macleod,Lynn Molloy,Andy R Ness,S M Ring,Scott M. Nelson,Debbie A Lawlor +12 more
TL;DR: The Avon Longitudinal Study of Children and Parents (ALSPAC) was established to understand how genetic and environmental characteristics influence health and development in parents and children.