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Richard M. Watanabe
Researcher at University of Southern California
Publications - 146
Citations - 37253
Richard M. Watanabe is an academic researcher from University of Southern California. The author has contributed to research in topics: Type 2 diabetes & Diabetes mellitus. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 140 publications receiving 34735 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard M. Watanabe include University of Michigan & University of Virginia.
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A genome-wide association study of type 2 diabetes in Finns detects multiple susceptibility variants.
Laura J. Scott,Karen L. Mohlke,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Cristen J. Willer,Yun Li,William L. Duren,Michael R. Erdos,Heather M. Stringham,Peter S. Chines,Anne U. Jackson,Ludmila Prokunina-Olsson,Chia-Jen Ding,Amy J. Swift,Narisu Narisu,Tianle Hu,Randall Pruim,Rui Xiao,Xiao-Yi Li,Karen N. Conneely,Nancy Riebow,Andrew G. Sprau,Maurine Tong,Peggy P. White,Kurt N. Hetrick,Michael W. Barnhart,Craig W. Bark,Janet L. Goldstein,Lee Watkins,Fang Xiang,Jouko Saramies,Thomas A. Buchanan,Richard M. Watanabe,Timo T. Valle,Leena Kinnunen,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Elizabeth W. Pugh,Kimberly F. Doheny,Richard N. Bergman,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Francis S. Collins,Michael Boehnke +40 more
TL;DR: The number of T2D loci now confidently identified to at least 10 is confirmed, and it is confirmed that variants near TCF7L2, SLC30A8, HHEX, FTO, PPARG, and KCNJ11 are associated with T1D risk.
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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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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. 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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.