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Ruth J. F. Loos
Researcher at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Publications - 724
Citations - 108929
Ruth J. F. Loos is an academic researcher from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Population. The author has an hindex of 142, co-authored 647 publications receiving 92485 citations. Previous affiliations of Ruth J. F. Loos include Mount Sinai Hospital & Medical Research Council.
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A common variant in the FTO gene is associated with body mass index and predisposes to childhood and adult obesity
Timothy M. Frayling,Nicholas J. Timpson,Michael N. Weedon,Eleftheria Zeggini,Eleftheria Zeggini,Eleftheria Zeggini,Rachel M. Freathy,Cecilia M. Lindgren,John R. B. Perry,Katherine S. Elliott,Katherine S. Elliott,Hana Lango,Nigel W. Rayner,Nigel W. Rayner,Nigel W. Rayner,Beverley M. Shields,Lorna W. Harries,Jeffrey C. Barrett,Jeffrey C. Barrett,Sian Ellard,Christopher J. Groves,Christopher J. Groves,Bridget A. Knight,Ann-Marie Patch,Andy R Ness,Shah Ebrahim,Debbie A Lawlor,Susan M. Ring,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Ulla Sovio,Ulla Sovio,Amanda J. Bennett,Amanda J. Bennett,David Melzer,Luigi Ferrucci,Ruth J. F. Loos,Inês Barroso,Nicholas J. Wareham,Fredrik Karpe,Fredrik Karpe,Katharine R. Owen,Katharine R. Owen,Lon R. Cardon,Mark Walker,Graham A. Hitman,Graham A. Hitman,Colin N. A. Palmer,Colin N. A. Palmer,Alex S. F. Doney,Alex S. F. Doney,Andrew D. Morris,George Davey Smith,Andrew T. Hattersley,Mark I. McCarthy +55 more
TL;DR: A genome-wide search for type 2 diabetes–susceptibility genes identified a common variant in the FTO (fat mass and obesity associated) gene that predisposes to diabetes through an effect on body mass index (BMI).
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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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Correlates of physical activity: why are some people physically active and others not?
Adrian Bauman,Rodrigo Siqueira Reis,Rodrigo Siqueira Reis,James F. Sallis,Jonathan C. K. Wells,Ruth J. F. Loos,Ruth J. F. Loos,Brian W. Martin +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, a broad view of health behaviour causation, with the social and physical environment included as contributors to physical inactivity, particularly those outside the health sector, such as urban planning, transportation systems, and parks and trails, is presented.
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. 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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.