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Thor Aspelund
Researcher at University of Iceland
Publications - 382
Citations - 47047
Thor Aspelund is an academic researcher from University of Iceland. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 86, co-authored 338 publications receiving 39824 citations. Previous affiliations of Thor Aspelund include Leiden University Medical Center & Reykjavík University.
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Worldwide trends in body-mass index, underweight, overweight, and obesity from 1975 to 2016: a pooled analysis of 2416 population-based measurement studies in 128·9 million children, adolescents, and adults
Leandra Abarca-Gómez,Ziad Abdeen,Zargar Abdul Hamid,Niveen M E Abu-Rmeileh,Benjamin Acosta-Cazares,Cecilia Acuin,Robert J. Adams,Wichai Aekplakorn,Kaosar Afsana,Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas,Charles Agyemang,Alireza Ahmadvand,Wolfgang Ahrens,Kamel Ajlouni,Nazgul Akhtaeva,Hazzaa M. Al-Hazzaa,Amani Al-Othman,Rajaa Al-Raddadi,Fadia Al Buhairan,Shahla Al Dhukair,Mohamed M. Ali,Osman Ali,Ala'a Alkerwi,Mar Alvarez-Pedrerol,Eman Aly,Deepak Amarapurkar,Philippe Amouyel,Antoinette Amuzu,Lars Bo Andersen,Sigmund A. Anderssen,Dolores S Andrade,Lars Ängquist,Ranjit Mohan Anjana,Hajer Aounallah-Skhiri,Joana Araújo,Inger Ariansen,Tahir Aris,Nimmathota Arlappa,Dominique Arveiler,Krishna K. Aryal,Thor Aspelund,Felix K. Assah,Maria Cecília Formoso Assunção,May Soe Aung,Maria Avdicova,Ana Azevedo,Fereidoun Azizi,Bontha V. Babu,Suhad Bahijri,Jennifer L. Baker,Nagalla Balakrishna,Mohamed Bamoshmoosh,Maciej Banach,Piotr Bandosz,José R. Banegas,Carlo M. Barbagallo,Alberto Barceló,Amina Barkat,Aluísio J D Barros,Mauro Vg Barros,Iqbal Bata,Anwar Batieha,Rosangela Fernandes Lucena Batista,Assembekov Batyrbek,Louise A. Baur,Robert Beaglehole,Habiba Ben Romdhane,Judith Benedics,Mikhail Benet,James E. Bennett,Antonio Bernabe-Ortiz,Gailute Bernotiene,Heloisa Bettiol,Aroor Bhagyalaxmi,Sumit Bharadwaj,Santosh K. Bhargava,Zaid Bhatti,Zulfiqar A Bhutta,Hongsheng Bi,Yufang Bi,Anna Karin Cecilia Månsson Biehl,Mukharram M. Bikbov,Bihungum Bista,Dusko Bjelica,Peter Bjerregaard,Espen Bjertness,Marius B. Bjertness,Cecilia Björkelund,Anneke Blokstra,Simona Bo,Martin Bobak,Lynne M. Boddy,Bernhard O. Boehm,Heiner Boeing,José Boggia,Carlos P. Boissonnet,Marialaura Bonaccio,Vanina Bongard,Pascal Bovet,Lien Braeckevelt,Lutgart Braeckman,Marjolijn C. E. Bragt,Imperia Brajkovich,Francesco Branca,Juergen Breckenkamp,João Breda,Hermann Brenner,Lizzy M. Brewster,Garry Brian,Lacramioara Brinduse,Graziella Bruno,H. B. Bueno-De-Mesquita,Anna Bugge,Marta Buoncristiano,Genc Burazeri,Con Burns,Antonio Cabrera de León,Joseph Cacciottolo,Hui Cai,Tilema Cama,Christine Cameron,José Camolas,Günay Can,Ana Paula Carlos Cândido,Mario V. Capanzana,Vincenzo Capuano,Viviane Cunha Cardoso,Axel C. Carlsson,Maria J. Carvalho,Felipe F. Casanueva,Juan-Pablo Casas,Carmelo A. Caserta,Snehalatha Chamukuttan,Angelique Chan,Queenie Chan,Himanshu K. Chaturvedi,Nishi Chaturvedi,Chien-Jen Chen,Fangfang Chen,Huashuai Chen,Shuohua Chen,Zhengming Chen,Ching-Yu Cheng,Angela Chetrit,Ekaterina Chikova-Iscener,Arnaud Chiolero,Shu Ti Chiou,Adela Chirita-Emandi,María Dolores Chirlaque,Belong Cho,Yumi Cho,Kaare Christensen,Diego Giulliano Destro Christofaro,Jerzy Chudek,Renata Cifkova,Eliza Cinteza,Frank Claessens,Els Clays,Hans Concin,Susana Cararo Confortin,Cyrus Cooper,Rachel Cooper,Tara Coppinger,Simona Costanzo,Dominique Cottel,Christopher T. Cowell,Cora L Craig,Ana B. Crujeiras,Alexandra Cucu,Graziella D'Arrigo,Eleonora d'Orsi,Jean Dallongeville,Albertino Damasceno,Camilla T. Damsgaard,Goodarz Danaei,Rachel Dankner,Thomas Meinertz Dantoft,Saeed Dastgiri,Luc Dauchet,Kairat Davletov,Guy De Backer,Dirk De Bacquer,Amalia De Curtis,Giovanni de Gaetano,Stefaan De Henauw,Paula Duarte de Oliveira,Karin De Ridder,Delphine De Smedt,Mohan Deepa,Alexander D. Deev,Abbas Dehghan,Hélène Delisle,Francis Delpeuch,Valérie Deschamps,Klodian Dhana,Augusto Di Castelnuovo,Juvenal Soares Dias-da-Costa,Alejandro A. Diaz,Zivka Dika,Shirin Djalalinia,Ha Tp Do,Annette J. Dobson,Maria Benedetta Donati,Chiara Donfrancesco,Silvana Donoso,Angela Döring,Maria Dorobantu,Ahmad Reza Dorosty,Kouamelan Doua,Wojciech Drygas,Jia Li Duan,Charmaine A. Duante,Vesselka Duleva,Virginija Dulskiene,Vilnis Dzerve,Elżbieta Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk,Eruke E. Egbagbe,Robert Eggertsen,Gabriele Eiben,Ulf Ekelund,Jalila El Ati,Paul Elliott,Reina Engle-Stone,Rajiv T Erasmus,Cihangir Erem,Louise Eriksen,Johan G. Eriksson,Jorge Escobedo-de la Peña,Alun Evans,David Faeh,Caroline H.D. Fall,Victoria Farrugia Sant'Angelo,Farshad Farzadfar,Francisco J. Félix-Redondo,Trevor S. Ferguson,Rômulo Araújo Fernandes,Daniel Fernández-Bergés,Daniel Ferrante,Marika Ferrari,Catterina Ferreccio,Jean Ferrières,Joseph D. Finn,Krista Fischer,Eric Monterubio Flores,Bernhard Föger,Leng Huat Foo,Ann-Sofie Forslund,Maria Forsner,Heba Fouad,Damian K Francis,Maria do Carmo Franco,Oscar H. Franco,Guillermo Frontera,Flávio Danni Fuchs,Sandra C. Fuchs,Yuki Fujita,Takuro Furusawa,Zbigniew Gaciong,Mihai Gafencu,Daniela Galeone,Fabio Galvano,Manoli Garcia-de-la-Hera,Dickman Gareta,Sarah P. Garnett,Jean-Michel Gaspoz,Magda Gasull,Louise Gates,Harald Geiger,Johanna M. Geleijnse,Anoosheh Ghasemian,Simona Giampaoli,Francesco Gianfagna,Tiffany K. Gill,Jonathan Giovannelli,Aleksander Giwercman,Justyna Godos,Sibel Gogen,Rebecca Goldsmith,David Goltzman,Helen Gonçalves,Margot González-León,Juan P. González-Rivas,Marcela González-Gross,Frederic Gottrand,Antonio Pedro Graça,Sidsel Graff-Iversen,Dusan Grafnetter,Aneta Grajda,Maria G. Grammatikopoulou,Ronald D. Gregor,Tomasz Grodzicki,Anders Grøntved,Giuseppe Grosso,Gabriella Gruden,Vera Grujic,Dongfeng Gu,Emanuela Gualdi-Russo,Pilar Guallar-Castillón,Ong Peng Guan,Elias F. Gudmundsson,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ramiro Guerrero,Idris Guessous,André Luiz Sena Guimarães,Martin Gulliford,Johanna Gunnlaugsdottir,Marc J. Gunter,Xiu-Hua Guo,Yin Guo,Prakash C. Gupta,Rajeev Gupta,Oye Gureje,Beata Gurzkowska,Laura Gutierrez,Felix Gutzwiller,Farzad Hadaegh,Charalambos Hadjigeorgiou,Khairil Si-Ramlee,Jytte Halkjær,Ian Hambleton,Rebecca Hardy,Rachakulla Hari Kumar,Maria Hassapidou,Jun Hata,Alison J. Hayes,Jiang He,Regina Heidinger-Felso,Mirjam M. Heinen,Marleen E. Hendriks,Ana Henriques,Leticia Hernandez Cadena,Sauli Herrala,Victor M. Herrera,Isabelle Herter-Aeberli,Ramin Heshmat,Ilpo Tapani Hihtaniemi,Sai Yin Ho,Suzanne C. Ho,Michael Hobbs,Albert Hofman,Wilma M. Hopman,Andrea R. V. R. Horimoto,Claudia M. Hormiga,Bernardo L. Horta,Leila Houti,Christina Howitt,Thein Thein Htay,Aung Soe Htet,Maung Maung Than Htike,Yonghua Hu,José María Huerta,Constanta Huidumac Petrescu,Martijn Huisman,Abdullatif Husseini,Chinh Nguyen Huu,Inge Huybrechts,Nahla Hwalla,Jolanda Hyska,Licia Iacoviello,Anna G. Iannone,Jesús Ibarluzea,Mohsen Ibrahim,Nayu Ikeda,M. Arfan Ikram,Vilma E. Irazola,Muhammad Islam,Aziz Al-Safi Ismail,Vanja Ivković,Masanori Iwasaki,Rod Jackson,Jeremy M. Jacobs,Hashem Jaddou,Tazeen H. Jafar,Kazi M. Jamil,Konrad Jamrozik,Imre Janszky,Juel Jarani,Grazyna Jasienska,Ana Jelakovic,Bojan Jelaković,Garry L. Jennings,Seung-Lyeal Jeong,Chaoqiang Jiang,Santa Magaly Jiménez-Acosta,Michel Joffres,Mattias Johansson,Jost B. Jonas,Torben Jørgensen,Pradeep Joshi,Dragana P Jovic,Jacek Jerzy Jozwiak,Anne Juolevi,Gregor Jurak,Vesna Jureša,Rudolf Kaaks,Anthony Kafatos,Eero Kajantie,Ofra Kalter-Leibovici,Nor Azmi Kamaruddin,Efthymios Kapantais,Khem Bahadur Karki,Amir Kasaeian,Joanne Katz,Jussi Kauhanen,Prabhdeep Kaur,Maryam Kavousi,Gyulli M. Kazakbaeva,Ulrich Keil,Lital Keinan Boker,Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi,Roya Kelishadi,Cecily Kelleher,Han Cg Kemper,Andre Pascal Kengne,Alina Kerimkulova,Mathilde Kersting,Timothy J. Key,Yousef Khader,Davood Khalili,Young-Ho Khang,Mohammad Khateeb,Kay-Tee Khaw,Ilse Khouw,Ursula Kiechl-Kohlendorfer,Stefan Kiechl,Japhet Killewo,Jeongseon Kim,Yeon-Yong Kim,Jeannette Klimont,Jurate Klumbiene,Michael Knoflach,Bhawesh Koirala,Elin Kolle,Patrick Kolsteren,Paul Korrovits,Jelena Kos,Seppo Koskinen,Katsuyasu Kouda,Viktoria Anna Kovacs,Sudhir Kowlessur,Slawomir Koziel,Wolfgang Kratzer,Susi Kriemler,Peter Kristensen,Steinar Krokstad,Daan Kromhout,Herculina S. Kruger,Ruzena Kubinova,Renata Kuciene,Diana Kuh,Urho M. Kujala,Zbigniew Kułaga,R. Krishna Kumar,Marie Kunešová,Pawel Kurjata,Yadlapalli S. Kusuma,Kari Kuulasmaa,Catherine Kyobutungi,Quang Ngoc La,Fatima Zahra Laamiri,Tiina Laatikainen,Carl Lachat,Youcef Laid,Tai Hing Lam,Orlando Landrove,Vera Lanska,Georg Lappas,Bagher Larijani,Lars E. Laugsand,Laura Lauria,Avula Laxmaiah,Khanh Le Nguyen Bao,Tuyen D Le,May Antonnette O Lebanan,Catherine Leclercq,Jeannette Lee,Jeonghee Lee,Terho Lehtimäki,Luz M. León-Muñoz,Naomi S. Levitt,Yanping Li,Christa L. Lilly,Wei-Yen Lim,M. Fernanda Lima-Costa,Hsien-Ho Lin,Xu Lin,Lars Lind,Allan Linneberg,Lauren Lissner,Mieczysław Litwin,Jing Liu,Helle-Mai Loit,Luís Lopes,Roberto Lorbeer,Paulo A. Lotufo,Jose Eugenio Lozano,Dalia Luksiene,Annamari Lundqvist,Nuno Lunet,Per Lytsy,Guansheng Ma,Jun Ma,George Luiz Lins Machado-Coelho,Aristides M. Machado-Rodrigues,Suka Machi,Stefania Maggi,Dianna J. Magliano,Emmanuella Magriplis,Alagappan Mahaletchumy,Bernard Maire,Marjeta Majer,Marcia Makdisse,Reza Malekzadeh,Rahul Malhotra,Kodavanti Mallikharjuna Rao,Sofia Malyutina,Yannis Manios,Jim Mann,Enzo Manzato,Paula Margozzini,Anastasia Markaki,Oonagh Markey,Larissa Pruner Marques,Pedro Marques-Vidal,Jaume Marrugat,Yves Martin-Prével,Rosemarie Martin,Reynaldo Martorell,Eva Martos,Stefano Marventano,Shariq Rashid Masoodi,Ellisiv B. Mathiesen,Alicia Matijasevich,Tandi E. Matsha,Artur Mazur,Jean Claude Mbanya,Shelly R. McFarlane,Stephen T. McGarvey,Martin McKee,Stela McLachlan,Rachael McLean,Scott B. McLean,Breige A. McNulty,Safiah Md Yusof,Sounnia Mediene-Benchekor,Jurate Medzioniene,Aline Meirhaeghe,Jørgen Meisfjord,Christa Meisinger,Ana Maria Menezes,Geetha R Menon,Gert B. M. Mensink,Indrapal I. Meshram,Andres Metspalu,Haakon E. Meyer,Jie Mi,Kim F. Michaelsen,Nathalie Michels,Kairit Mikkel,Jody C Miller,Cláudia S. Minderico,Juan Francisco Miquel,J. Jaime Miranda,Daphne Mirkopoulou,Erkin M. Mirrakhimov,Marjeta Mišigoj-Duraković,Antonio Mistretta,Veronica Mocanu,Pietro Amedeo Modesti,Mostafa K. Mohamed,Kazem Mohammad,Noushin Mohammadifard,Viswanathan Mohan,Salim Mohanna,Muhammad Fadhli Mohd Yusoff,Drude Molbo,Line Tang Møllehave,Niels Møller,Dénes Molnár,Amirabbas Momenan,Charles Mondo,Eric A Monterrubio,Kotsedi D Monyeki,Jin Soo Moon,Leila Beltrami Moreira,Alain Morejon,Luis A. Moreno,Karen Morgan,Erik Lykke Mortensen,George Moschonis,Małgorzata Mossakowska,Aya Mostafa,Jorge Mota,Anabela Mota-Pinto,Mohammad Esmaeel Motlagh,Jorge Motta,Thet Thet Mu,Magdalena Muc,Maria Lorenza Muiesan,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Neil Murphy,Jaakko Mursu,Elaine M. Murtagh,Vera Musil,Iraj Nabipour,Gabriele Nagel,Balkish M. Naidu,Harunobu Nakamura,Jana Námešná,Ei Ei K. Nang,Vinay Nangia,Martin Nankap,Sameer Narake,Paola Nardone,Eva María Navarrete-Muñoz,William A. Neal,Ilona Nenko,Martin Neovius,Flavio Nervi,Chung T Nguyen,Nguyen D Nguyen,Quang Ngoc Nguyen,Ramfis Nieto-Martínez,Guang Ning,Toshiharu Ninomiya,Sania Nishtar,Marianna Noale,Oscar Noboa,Teresa Norat,Sawada Norie,Davide Noto,Mohannad Al Nsour,Dermot O'Reilly,Galina Obreja,Eiji Oda,Glenn P. Oehlers,Kyungwon Oh,Kumiko Ohara,Orn Olafsson,Maria Teresa Anselmo Olinto,Isabel O. Oliveira,Maciej Oltarzewski,Mohd Azahadi Omar,Altan Onat,Sok King Ong,Lariane M Ono,Pedro Ordunez,Rui Ornelas,Ana P. Ortiz,Merete Osler,Clive Osmond,Sergej M. Ostojic,Afshin Ostovar,Johanna A. Otero,Kim Overvad,Ellis Owusu-Dabo,Fred Paccaud,Cristina Padez,Elena Pahomova,Andrzej Pajak,Domenico Palli,Alberto Palloni,Luigi Palmieri,Wen-Harn Pan,Songhomitra Panda-Jonas,Arvind Pandey,Francesco Panza,Dimitrios Papandreou,Soon-Woo Park,Winsome R. Parnell,Mahboubeh Parsaeian,Ionela Pascanu,Nikhil D. Patel,Ivan Pećin,Mangesh S. Pednekar,Nasheeta Peer,Petra H.M. Peeters,Sérgio Viana Peixoto,Markku Peltonen,Alexandre C. Pereira,Napoleón Pérez-Farinós,Cynthia M. Pérez,Annette Peters,Janina Petkeviciene,Ausra Petrauskiene,Niloofar Peykari,Son Thai Pham,Daniela Pierannunzio,Iris Pigeot,Hynek Pikhart,Aida Pilav,Lorenza Pilotto,Francesco Pistelli,Freda Pitakaka,Aleksandra Piwońska,Pedro Plans-Rubio,Bee Koon Poh,Hermann Pohlabeln,Raluca Pop,Stevo Popovic,Miquel Porta,Marileen L.P. Portegies,Georg Posch,Dimitrios Poulimeneas,Hamed Pouraram,Akram Pourshams,Hossein Poustchi,Rajendra Pradeepa,Mathur Prashant,Jacqueline F. Price,Jardena J. Puder,Iveta Pudule,Maria Puiu,Margus Punab,Radwan Qasrawi,Mostafa Qorbani,Tran Quoc Bao,Ivana Radic,Ričardas Radišauskas,Mahfuzar Rahman,Mahmudur Rahman,Olli T. Raitakari,Manu Raj,Sudha Ramachandra Rao,Ambady Ramachandran,Jacqueline Ramke,Elisabete Ramos,Rafel Ramos,Lekhraj Rampal,Sanjay Rampal,Ramón Alberto Rascón-Pacheco,Josep Redon,Paul Ferdinand M. Reganit,Lourdes Ribas-Barba,Robespierre Ribeiro,Elio Riboli,Fernando Rigo,Tobias F. Rinke de Wit,Ana Isabel Rito,Raphael Mendes Ritti-Dias,Juan A Rivera,Sian M. Robinson,Cynthia Robitaille,Daniela Rodrigues,Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo,Maria del Cristo Rodriguez-Perez,Laura A. Rodríguez-Villamizar,Rosalba Rojas-Martínez,Nipa Rojroongwasinkul,Dora Romaguera,Kimmo Ronkainen,Annika Rosengren,Ian Rouse,Joel G. R. Roy,Adolfo Rubinstein,Frank J Rühli,Blanca Sandra Ruiz-Betancourt,Paola Russo,Marcin Rutkowski,Charumathi Sabanayagam,Harshpal Singh Sachdev,Olfa Saidi,Benoit Salanave,Eduardo Salazar Martinez,Diego Salmerón,Veikko Salomaa,Jukka T. Salonen,Massimo Salvetti,Jose Sanchez-Abanto,Sandjaja,Susana Sans,Loreto Santa Marina,Diana A. Santos,Iná S. Santos,Osvaldo Santos,Renata Nunes dos Santos,Rute Santos,Jouko Saramies,Luís B. Sardinha,Nizal Sarrafzadegan,Kai-Uwe Saum,Savvas C. Savva,Mathilde Savy,Marcia Scazufca,Angelika Schaffrath Rosario,Herman Schargrodsky,Anja Schienkiewitz,Sabine Schipf,Carsten Oliver Schmidt,Ida Maria Schmidt,Constance Schultsz,Aletta E. Schutte,Aye Aye Sein,Abhijit Sen,Idowu O Senbanjo,Sadaf G. Sepanlou,Luis Serra-Majem,Svetlana A. Shalnova,Sanjib Kumar Sharma,Jonathan E. Shaw,Kenji Shibuya,Dong Wook Shin,Youchan Shin,Rahman Shiri,Alfonso Siani,Rosalynn Siantar,Abla M. Sibai,Antônio Augusto Moura da Silva,Diego Augusto Santos Silva,Mary Simon,Judith Simons,Leon A. Simons,Agneta Sjöberg,Michael Sjöström,Sine Skovbjerg,Jolanta Slowikowska-Hilczer,Przemyslaw Slusarczyk,Liam Smeeth,Margaret Smith,Marieke B. Snijder,Hung-Kwan So,Eugene Sobngwi,Stefan Söderberg,Moesijanti Soekatri,Vincenzo Solfrizzi,Emily Sonestedt,Yi Song,Thorkild I. A. Sørensen,Maroje Sorić,Charles Sossa Jérome,Aicha Soumare,Angela Spinelli,Igor Spiroski,Jan A. Staessen,Hanspeter Stamm,Gregor Starc,Maria G. Stathopoulou,Kaspar Staub,Bill Stavreski,Jostein Steene-Johannessen,Peter Stehle,Aryeh D. Stein,George S. Stergiou,Jochanan Stessman,Jutta Stieber,Doris Stöckl,Tanja Stocks,Jakub Stokwiszewski,Gareth Stratton,Karien Stronks,Maria Wany Louzada Strufaldi,Ramón Suárez-Medina,Chien-An Sun,Johan Sundström,Yn-Tz Sung,Jordi Sunyer,Paibul Suriyawongpaisal,Boyd Swinburn,Rody G. Sy,Lucjan Szponar,E. Shyong Tai,Mari-Liis Tammesoo,Abdonas Tamosiunas,Eng Joo Tan,Xun Tang,Frank Tanser,Yong Tao,Mohammed Rasoul Tarawneh,Jakob Tarp,Carolina Tarqui-Mamani,O. Tautu,Radka Taxová Braunerová,Anne W. Taylor,Félicité Tchibindat,Holger Theobald,Xenophon Theodoridis,Lutgarde Thijs,Betina H. Thuesen,Anne Tjønneland,Hanna Tolonen,Janne Schurmann Tolstrup,Murat Topbaş,Roman Topor-Madry,María José Tormo,Michael Tornaritis,Maties Torrent,Stefania Toselli,Pierre Traissac,Dimitrios Trichopoulos,Antonia Trichopoulou,Oanh T. H. Trinh,Atul Trivedi,Lechaba Tshepo,Maria Tsigga,Shoichiro Tsugane,Marshall K. Tulloch-Reid,Fikru Tullu,Tomi-Pekka Tuomainen,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Maria L. Turley,Per Tynelius,Themistoklis Tzotzas,Christophe Tzourio,Peter Ueda,Eunice Ugel,Flora A. Ukoli,Hanno Ulmer,Belgin Ünal,Hannu Uusitalo,Gonzalo Valdivia,Susana Vale,Damaskini Valvi,Yvonne T. van der Schouw,Koen Van Herck,Hoang Van Minh,Lenie van Rossem,Natasja M. van Schoor,Irene G. M. van Valkengoed,Dirk Vanderschueren,Diego Vanuzzo,Lars J. Vatten,Tomas Vega,Toomas Veidebaum,Gustavo Velasquez-Melendez,Biruta Velika,Giovanni Veronesi,W. M. Monique Verschuren,Cesar G. Victora,Giovanni Viegi,Lucie Viet,Eira Viikari-Juntura,Paolo Vineis,Jesús Vioque,Jyrki K. Virtanen,Sophie Visvikis-Siest,Bharathi Viswanathan,Tiina Vlasoff,Peter Vollenweider,Henry Völzke,Sari Voutilainen,Martine Vrijheid,Alisha N. Wade,Aline Wagner,Thomas Waldhör,Janette Walton,Wan Mohamad Wan Bebakar,Wan Nazaimoon Wan Mohamud,Rildo S Wanderley,Ming-Dong Wang,Qian Wang,Ya Xing Wang,Ying-Wei Wang,S. Goya Wannamethee,Nicholas J. Wareham,Adelheid Weber,Niels Wedderkopp,Deepa Weerasekera,Peter H. Whincup,Kurt Widhalm,Indah Suci Widyahening,Andrzej Wiecek,Alet H. Wijga,Rainford J. Wilks,Johann Willeit,Peter Willeit,Tom Wilsgaard,Bogdan Wojtyniak,Roy A Wong-McClure,Justin Yy Wong,Jyh Eiin Wong,Tien Yin Wong,Jean Woo,Mark Woodward,Frederick C. W. Wu,Jianfeng Wu,Shou Ling Wu,Haiquan Xu,Liang Xu,Uruwan Yamborisut,Weili Yan,Xiaoguang Yang,Nazan Yardim,Xingwang Ye,Panayiotis K. Yiallouros,Agneta Yngve,Akihiro Yoshihara,Qi Sheng You,Novie O. Younger-Coleman,Faudzi Yusoff,Muhammad Fadhli M Yusoff,Luciana Zaccagni,Vassilis Zafiropulos,Ahmad Ali Zainuddin,Sabina Zambon,Antonis Zampelas,Hana Zamrazilová,Tomasz Zdrojewski,Yi Zeng,Dong Zhao,Wenhua Zhao,Wei Zheng,Yingfeng Zheng,Bekbolat Zholdin,Maigeng Zhou,Dan Zhu,Baurzhan Zhussupov,Esther Zimmermann,Julio Zuñiga Cisneros,James Bentham,James Bentham,Mariachiara Di Cesare,Ver Bilano,Honor Bixby,Bin Zhou,Gretchen A Stevens,Leanne M. Riley,Cristina Taddei,Kaveh Hajifathalian,Yuan Lu,Stefan Savin,Melanie J. Cowan,Christopher J. 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TL;DR: Trends in mean BMI have recently flattened in northwestern Europe and the high-income English-speaking and Asia-Pacific regions for both sexes, southwestern Europe for boys, and central and Andean Latin America for girls, and by contrast, the rise in BMI has accelerated in east and south Asia forboth sexes, and southeast Asia for boys.
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Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index
Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Cristen J. Willer,Sonja I. Berndt,Keri L. Monda,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Anne U. Jackson,Hana Lango Allen,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Jian'an Luan,Reedik Maegi,Joshua C. Randall,Sailaja Vedantam,Thomas W. Winkler,Lu Qi,Lu Qi,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Iris M. Heid,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Heather M. Stringham,Michael N. Weedon,Eleanor Wheeler,Andrew R. Wood,Teresa Ferreira,Robert J. Weyant,Ayellet V. Segrè,Ayellet V. Segrè,Karol Estrada,Liming Liang,James Nemesh,James Nemesh,Ju-Hyun Park,Stefan Gustafsson,Tuomas O. Kilpelaenen,Jian Yang,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Tõnu Esko,Mary F. Feitosa,Zoltán Kutalik,Massimo Mangino,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Soumya Raychaudhuri,André Scherag,Albert V. Smith,Ryan P. Welch,Jing Hua Zhao,Katja K.H. Aben,Devin Absher,Najaf Amin,Anna L. Dixon,Eva Fisher,Nicole L. Glazer,Michael E. Goddard,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Volker Hoesel,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Åsa Johansson,Åsa Johansson,Toby Johnson,Shamika Ketkar,Claudia Lamina,Shengxu Li,Miriam F. Moffatt,Richard H. Myers,Narisu Narisu,John R. B. Perry,Marjolein Peters,Michael Preuss,Samuli Ripatti,Fernando Rivadeneira,Camilla H. Sandholt,Laura J. Scott,Nicholas J. Timpson,Jonathan Tyrer,Sophie van Wingerden,Richard M. Watanabe,Charles C. White,Fredrik Wiklund,Christina Barlassina,Daniel I. Chasman,Daniel I. Chasman,Mark E. Cooper,John-Olov Jansson,Robert Lawrence,Niina Pellikka,Inga Prokopenko,Jianxin Shi,Elisabeth Thiering,Helene Alavere,Maria Teresa Sciarrone Alibrandi,Peter Almgren,Alice M. Arnold,Thor Aspelund,Larry D. Atwood,Beverley Balkau,Anthony J. Balmforth,Amanda J. Bennett,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Richard N. Bergman,Sven Bergmann,Heike Biebermann,Alexandra I. F. Blakemore,Tanja Boes,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Stefan R. Bornstein,Morris Brown,Thomas A. Buchanan,Fabio Busonero,Harry Campbell,Francesco P. Cappuccio,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Chih-Mei Chen,Peter S. Chines,Robert Clarke,Lachlan J. M. Coin,John M. C. Connell,Ian N. M. Day,Martin den Heijer,Jubao Duan,Shah Ebrahim,Paul Elliott,Roberto Elosua,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Michael R. Erdos,Johan G. Eriksson,Maurizio F. Facheris,Stephan B. Felix,Pamela Fischer-Posovszky,Aaron R. Folsom,Aaron R. Folsom,Nele Friedrich,Nelson B. Freimer,Mao Fu,Stefan Gaget,Stefan Gaget,Pablo V. Gejman,Eco J. C. de Geus,Christian Gieger,Anette P. Gjesing,Anuj Goel,Philippe Goyette,Harald Grallert,Juergen Graessler,Danielle M. Greenawalt,Christopher J. Groves,Vilmundur Gudnason,Candace Guiducci,Anna-Liisa Hartikainen,Neelam Hassanali,Alistair S. Hall,Aki S. Havulinna,Caroline Hayward,Andrew C. Heath,Christian Hengstenberg,Andrew A. Hicks,Anke Hinney,Albert Hofman,Georg Homuth,Jennie Hui,Wilmar Igl,Carlos Iribarren,Carlos Iribarren,Bo Isomaa,Kevin B. Jacobs,Ivonne Jarick,Elizabeth S. Jewell,Ulrich John,Torben Jørgensen,Pekka Jousilahti,Antti Jula,Marika Kaakinen,Eero Kajantie,Lee M. Kaplan,Sekar Kathiresan,Johannes Kettunen,Leena Kinnunen,Joshua W. Knowles,Ivana Kolcic,Inke R. Koenig,Seppo Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Johanna Kuusisto,Peter Kraft,Kirsti Kvaløy,Jaana Laitinen,Olivier Lantieri,Chiara Lanzani,Lenore J. Launer,Cécile Lecoeur,Cécile Lecoeur,Terho Lehtimaeki,Guillaume Lettre,Guillaume Lettre,Jianjun Liu,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Mattias Lorentzon,Robert Luben,Barbara Ludwig,Paolo Manunta,Diana Marek,Michel Marre,Nicholas G. Martin,Wendy L. McArdle,Anne McCarthy,Barbara McKnight,Thomas Meitinger,Olle Melander,David Meyre,David Meyre,Kristian Midthjell,Grant W. Montgomery,Mario A. Morken,Andrew P. Morris,Rosanda Mulić,Julius S. Ngwa,Mari Nelis,Mari Nelis,Matt Neville,Dale R. Nyholt,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Stephen O'Rahilly,Ken K. Ong,Ben A. Oostra,Guillaume Paré,Alex N. Parker,Markus Perola,Irene Pichler,Kirsi H. Pietilaeinen,Carl G. P. Platou,Ozren Polasek,Anneli Pouta,Suzanne Rafelt,Olli T. Raitakari,Nigel W. Rayner,Martin Ridderstråle,Winfried Rief,Aimo Ruokonen,Neil Robertson,Peter Rzehak,Veikko Salomaa,Alan R. Sanders,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Serena Sanna,Jouko Saramies,Markku J. Savolainen,Susann Scherag,Sabine Schipf,Stefan Schreiber,Heribert Schunkert,Kaisa Silander,Juha Sinisalo,David S. Siscovick,Jan Smit,Nicole Soranzo,Nicole Soranzo,Ulla Sovio,Jonathan Stephens,Jonathan Stephens,Ida Surakka,Amy J. Swift,Mari-Liis Tammesoo,Jean-Claude Tardif,Jean-Claude Tardif,Maris Teder-Laving,Tanya M. Teslovich,John R. Thompson,John R. Thompson,Brian Thomson,Anke Toenjes,Tiinamaija Tuomi,Joyce B. J. van Meurs,Gert-Jan B. van Ommen,Vincent Vatin,Vincent Vatin,Jorma S. A. Viikari,Jorma S. A. Viikari,Sophie Visvikis-Siest,Veronique Vitart,Carla I. G. Vogel,Benjamin F. Voight,Lindsay L. Waite,Henri Wallaschofski,G. Bragi Walters,Elisabeth Widen,Susanna Wiegand,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Daniel R. Witte,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,Jianfeng Xu,Qunyuan Zhang,Lina Zgaga,Andreas Ziegler,Paavo Zitting,John Beilby,I. Sadaf Farooqi,Johannes Hebebrand,Heikki V. Huikuri,Alan James,Mika Kaehoenen,Douglas F. Levinson,Fabio Macciardi,Fabio Macciardi,Markku S. Nieminen,Claes Ohlsson,Lyle J. Palmer,Paul M. Ridker,Paul M. Ridker,Michael Stumvoll,Jacques S. Beckmann,Heiner Boeing,Eric Boerwinkle,Dorret I. Boomsma,Mark J. Caulfield,Stephen J. Chanock,Francis S. Collins,L. Adrienne Cupples,George Davey Smith,Jeanette Erdmann,Philippe Froguel,Philippe Froguel,Philippe Froguel,Henrik Greonberg,Ulf Gyllensten,Per Hall,Torben Hansen,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Richard B. Hayes,Joachim Heinrich,Frank B. Hu,Frank B. Hu,Kristian Hveem,Thomas Illig,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Jaakko Kaprio,Fredrik Karpe,Kay-Tee Khaw,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Heiko Krude,Markku Laakso,Debbie A Lawlor,Andres Metspalu,Patricia B. Munroe,Willem H. Ouwehand,Willem H. Ouwehand,Willem H. Ouwehand,Oluf Pedersen,Oluf Pedersen,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Annette Peters,Peter P. Pramstaller,Thomas Quertermous,Thomas Reinehr,Aila Rissanen,Igor Rudan,Igor Rudan,Nilesh J. Samani,Peter Schwarz,Alan R. Shuldiner,Tim D. Spector,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Manuela Uda,André G. Uitterlinden,Timo T. Valle,Martin Wabitsch,Gerard Waeber,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,James F. Wilson,Alan F. Wright,M. Carola Zillikens,Nilanjan Chatterjee,Steven A. McCarroll,Shaun Purcell,Eric E. Schadt,Peter M. Visscher,Themistocles L. Assimes,Ingrid B. Borecki,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Leif Groop,Talin Haritunians,David J. Hunter,David J. Hunter,Robert C. Kaplan,Karen L. Mohlke,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Leena Peltonen,David Schlessinger,David P. Strachan,Cornelia M. van Duijn,H-Erich Wichmann,Timothy M. Frayling,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Inês Barroso,Inês Barroso,Michael Boehnke,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Kari E. North,Mark I. McCarthy,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Erik Ingelsson,Ruth J. F. Loos +413 more
TL;DR: Genetic loci associated with body mass index map near key hypothalamic regulators of energy balance, and one of these loci is near GIPR, an incretin receptor, which may provide new insights into human body weight regulation.
Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index
Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Cristen J. Willer,Sonja I. Berndt,Keri L. Monda,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Anne U. Jackson,H Lango Allen,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Jian'an Luan,Reedik Mägi,Joshua C. Randall,Sailaja Vedantam,Thomas W. Winkler,Lu Qi,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Iris M. Heid,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Heather M. Stringham,Michael N. Weedon,Eleanor Wheeler,Andrew R. Wood,Teresa Ferreira,Robert J. Weyant,Ayellet V. Segrè,K. Estrada,Liming Liang,James Nemesh,Ju-Hyun Park,Stefan Gustafsson,Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen,Jian Yang,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Tõnu Esko,Mary F. Feitosa,Zoltán Kutalik,Massimo Mangino,Soumya Raychaudhuri,André Scherag,Albert V. Smith,Ryan P. Welch,Jing Hua Zhao,Katja K.H. Aben,Devin Absher,Najaf Amin,Anna L. Dixon,Eva Fisher,Nicole L. Glazer,Michael E. Goddard,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Volker Hoesel,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Åsa Johansson,Toby Johnson,Shamika Ketkar,Claudia Lamina,Shengxu Li,MF Moffatt,Richard H. Myers,Narisu Narisu,John R. B. Perry,Maire Peters,Michael Preuss,Samuli Ripatti,Fernando Rivadeneira,Camilla H. Sandholt,Laura J. Scott,Nicholas J. Timpson,Jonathan Tyrer,S. van Wingerden,Richard M. Watanabe,Charles L. White,Fredrik Wiklund,Cristina Barlassina,Daniel I. Chasman,Mark E. Cooper,John-Olov Jansson,Robert W. Lawrence,Niina Pellikka,Inga Prokopenko,Jianxin Shi,Elisabeth Thiering,Helene Alavere,Maria Teresa Sciarrone Alibrandi,Peter Almgren,Andreas Arnold,Thor Aspelund,Larry D. Atwood,Beverley Balkau,Anthony J. Balmforth,Amanda J. Bennett,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Richard N. Bergman,Sven Bergmann,Heike Biebermann,Alexandra I. F. Blakemore,Tanja Boes,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Stefan R. Bornstein,Michael Brown,Thomas A. Buchanan,Fabio Busonero,Harry Campbell,Francesco P. Cappuccio,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Y. D. Chen,C. M. Chen,Peter S. Chines,Robert Clarke,Lachlan J. M. Coin,John M. C. Connell,Ian N.M. Day,M. den Heijer,Jubao Duan,Shah Ebrahim,Paul Elliott,Roberto Elosua,G. Eiriksdottir,Mike Erdos,Johan G. Eriksson,Maurizio Facheris,Stephan B. Felix,Pamela Fischer-Posovszky,Aaron R. Folsom,Nele Friedrich,Nelson B. Freimer,Mao Fu,Stéphane Gaget,Pablo V. Gejman,Eco J. C. de Geus,Christian Gieger,Anette P. Gjesing,Anuj Goel,Philippe Goyette,Harald Grallert,Jürgen Grässler,Danielle M. Greenawalt,C J Groves,Vilmundur Gudnason,Candace Guiducci,A.-L. Hartikainen,N Hassanali,Alistair S. Hall,Aki S. Havulinna,Caroline Hayward,Andrew C. Heath,Christian Hengstenberg,Andrew A. Hicks,Anke Hinney,Albert Hofman,G. Homuth,Jennie Hui,Wilmar Igl,Carlos Iribarren,Bo Isomaa,Kevin B. Jacobs,Ivonne Jarick,Elizabeth S. Jewell,Ulrich John,Torben Jørgensen,P. Jousilahti,A. Jula,Marika Kaakinen,Eero Kajantie,Lee M. Kaplan,Sekar Kathiresan,Johannes Kettunen,Leena Kinnunen,Joshua W. Knowles,Ivana Kolcic,Inke R. König,Seppo Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Johanna Kuusisto,Peter Kraft,Kirsti Kvaløy,Jaana Laitinen,Olivier Lantieri,Chiara Lanzani,Lenore J. Launer,Cécile Lecoeur,Terho Lehtimäki,Guillaume Lettre,Jianjun Liu,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Mattias Lorentzon,Robert Luben,Barbara Ludwig,Paolo Manunta,Diana Marek,Michel Marre,Nicholas G. Martin,Wendy L. McArdle,Alun D. McCarthy,Barbara McKnight,Thomas Meitinger,Olle Melander,David Meyre,Kristian Midthjell,Grant W. Montgomery,M. A. Morken,Andrew P. Morris,Rosanda Mulić,Julius S. Ngwa,Mari Nelis,Matt Neville,Dale R. Nyholt,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Stephen O'Rahilly,Ken K. Ong,Ben A. Oostra,Guillaume Paré,Alex N. Parker,Markus Perola,Irene Pichler,Kirsi H. Pietiläinen,Carl Platou,Ozren Polasek,A Pouta,Suzanne Rafelt,Olli T. Raitakari,Nigel W. Rayner,Martin Ridderstråle,Winfried Rief,Aimo Ruokonen,Neil R. Robertson,Peter Rzehak,Veikko Salomaa,Alan R. Sanders,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Serena Sanna,Jouko Saramies,Markku J. Savolainen,S. Scherag,Sabine Schipf,Stefan Schreiber,Heribert Schunkert,Kaisa Silander,Juha Sinisalo,David S. Siscovick,J.H. Smit,Nicole Soranzo,Ulla Sovio,J. Stephens,Ida Surakka,Amy J. Swift,M. L. Tammesoo,Jean-Claude Tardif,Maris Teder-Laving,Tanya M. Teslovich,John R. Thompson,Brian Thomson,A Tönjes,Tiinamaija Tuomi,J.B. van Meurs,G.J.B. van Ommen,Vincent Vatin,Jorma Viikari,Sophie Visvikis-Siest,Veronique Vitart,Charlotte Vogel,Benjamin F. Voight,Lindsay L. Waite,Henri Wallaschofski,G B Walters,E. Widen,Susanna Wiegand,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Daniel R. Witte,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,Jianfeng Xu,Qunyuan Zhang,Lina Zgaga,Andreas Ziegler,P. Zitting,John Beilby,I S Farooqi,Johannes Hebebrand,Heikki V. Huikuri,Alan L. James,Mika Kähönen,Douglas F. Levinson,Fabio Macciardi,Markku S. Nieminen,Claes Ohlsson,Lyle J. Palmer,Paul M. Ridker,Michael Stumvoll,Jacques S. Beckmann,H. Boeing,Eric Boerwinkle,Dorret I. Boomsma,Mark J. Caulfield,Stephen J. Chanock,Francis S. Collins,L. A. Cupples,George Davey Smith,Jeanette Erdmann,Philippe Froguel,Henrik Grönberg,Ulf Gyllensten,Per Hall,Torben Hansen,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Richard B. Hayes,Joachim Heinrich,Frank B. Hu,Kristian Hveem,Thomas Illig,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Jaakko Kaprio,Fredrik Karpe,Kay-Tee Khaw,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Heiko Krude,Markku Laakso,Debbie A Lawlor,Andres Metspalu,Patricia B. Munroe,Willem H. Ouwehand,Oluf Pedersen,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Annette Peters,Peter P. Pramstaller,Thomas Quertermous,Thomas Reinehr,A. Rissanen,Igor Rudan,Nilesh J. Samani,Peter Schwarz,Alan R. Shuldiner,Tim D. Spector,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Manuela Uda,André G. Uitterlinden,Valle Tt,Martin Wabitsch,G. Waeber,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,James F. Wilson,Alan F. Wright,M. C. Zillikens,Nilanjan Chatterjee,Steven A. McCarroll,Shaun Purcell,Eric E. Schadt,Peter M. Visscher,Themistocles L. Assimes,Ingrid B. Borecki,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Leif Groop,Talin Haritunians,David J. Hunter,Robert C. Kaplan,Karen L. Mohlke,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Leena Peltonen,David Schlessinger,David P. Strachan,C M van Duijn,H. E. Wichmann,Timothy M. Frayling,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Inês Barroso,Michael Boehnke,Kari Stefansson,Kari E. North,Mark I. McCarthy,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Erik Ingelsson,Ruth J. F. Loos +374 more
TL;DR: 18 new loci associated with body mass index are identified, one of which includes a copy number variant near GPRC5B, and genes in other newly associated loci may provide new insights into human body weight regulation.
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Genetic variants in novel pathways influence blood pressure and cardiovascular disease risk
Georg Ehret,Georg Ehret,Georg Ehret,Patricia B. Munroe,Kenneth Rice,Murielle Bochud,Andrew D. Johnson,Daniel I. Chasman,Albert V. Smith,Martin D. Tobin,Germaine C. Verwoert,Shih-Jen Hwang,Vasyl Pihur,Peter Vollenweider,Paul F. O'Reilly,Najaf Amin,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Alexander Teumer,Nicole L. Glazer,Lenore J. Launer,Jing Hua Zhao,Yurii S. Aulchenko,Simon Heath,Siim Sõber,Afshin Parsa,Jian'an Luan,Pankaj Arora,Abbas Dehghan,Feng Zhang,Gavin Lucas,Andrew A. Hicks,Anne U. Jackson,John F. Peden,Toshiko Tanaka,Sarah H. Wild,Igor Rudan,Igor Rudan,Wilmar Igl,Yuri Milaneschi,Alex Parker,Cristiano Fava,Cristiano Fava,John C. Chambers,John C. Chambers,Ervin R. Fox,Meena Kumari,Min Jin Go,Pim van der Harst,Wen Hong Linda Kao,Marketa Sjögren,D. G. Vinay,Myriam Alexander,Yasuharu Tabara,Sue Shaw-Hawkins,Peter H. Whincup,Yongmei Liu,Gang Shi,Johanna Kuusisto,Bamidele O. Tayo,Mark Seielstad,Mark Seielstad,Xueling Sim,Khanh-Dung H. Nguyen,Terho Lehtimäki,Giuseppe Matullo,Ying Wu,Tom R. Gaunt,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Mark E. Cooper,Carl G. P. Platou,Elin Org,Rebecca Hardy,Santosh Dahgam,Jutta Palmen,Veronique Vitart,Peter S. Braund,Peter S. Braund,Tatiana Kuznetsova,Cuno S.P.M. Uiterwaal,Adebowale Adeyemo,Walter Palmas,Harry Campbell,Barbara Ludwig,Maciej Tomaszewski,Maciej Tomaszewski,Ioanna Tzoulaki,Ioanna Tzoulaki,Nicholette D. Palmer,Thor Aspelund,Melissa Garcia,Yen Pei C. Chang,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Nanette I. Steinle,Diederick E. Grobbee,Dan E. Arking,Sharon L.R. Kardia,Alanna C. Morrison,Dena G. Hernandez,Samer S. Najjar,Samer S. Najjar,Wendy L. McArdle,David Hadley,David Hadley,Morris J. Brown,John M. C. Connell,Aroon D. Hingorani,Ian N. M. Day,Debbie A Lawlor,John Beilby,Robert W. Lawrence,Robert Clarke,Jemma C. Hopewell,Halit Ongen,Albert W. Dreisbach,Yali Li,J. Hunter Young,Joshua C. Bis,Mika Kähönen,Jorma Viikari,Linda S. Adair,Nanette R. Lee,Ming-Huei Chen,Matthias Olden,Cristian Pattaro,Judith A. Hoffman Bolton,Anna Köttgen,Anna Köttgen,Sven Bergmann,Sven Bergmann,Vincent Mooser,Nish Chaturvedi,Timothy M. Frayling,Muhammad Islam,Tazeen H. Jafar,Jeanette Erdmann,Smita R. Kulkarni,Stefan R. Bornstein,Jürgen Grässler,Leif Groop,Benjamin F. Voight,Johannes Kettunen,Philip Howard,Andrew M. Taylor,Simonetta Guarrera,Fulvio Ricceri,Valur Emilsson,Andrew S. Plump,Inês Barroso,Inês Barroso,Kay-Tee Khaw,Alan B. Weder,Steven C. Hunt,Yan V. Sun,Richard N. Bergman,Francis S. Collins,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Laura J. Scott,Heather M. Stringham,Leena Peltonen,Markus Perola,Erkki Vartiainen,Stefan Martin Brand,Jan A. Staessen,Thomas J. Wang,Thomas J. Wang,Paul Burton,Paul Burton,María Soler Artigas,Yanbin Dong,Harold Snieder,Harold Snieder,Xiaoling Wang,Haidong Zhu,Kurt Lohman,Megan E. Rudock,Susan R. Heckbert,Susan R. Heckbert,Nicholas L. Smith,Nicholas L. Smith,Nicholas L. Smith,Kerri L. Wiggins,Ayo P. Doumatey,Daniel Shriner,Gudrun Veldre,Margus Viigimaa,Sanjay Kinra,Dorairaj Prabhakaran,Vikal Tripathy,Carl D. Langefeld,Annika Rosengren,Dag S. Thelle,Anna Maria Corsi,Andrew B. Singleton,Terrence Forrester,Gina Hilton,Colin A. McKenzie,Tunde Salako,Naoharu Iwai,Yoshikuni Kita,Toshio Ogihara,Takayoshi Ohkubo,Takayoshi Ohkubo,Tomonori Okamura,Hirotsugu Ueshima,Satoshi Umemura,Susana Eyheramendy,Thomas Meitinger,H.-Erich Wichmann,Yoon Shin Cho,Hyung Lae Kim,Jong-Young Lee,James Scott,Joban Sehmi,Joban Sehmi,Weihua Zhang,Bo Hedblad,Peter M. Nilsson,George Davey Smith,Andrew Wong,Narisu Narisu,Alena Stančáková,Leslie J. Raffel,Jie Yao,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Stephen M. Schwartz,M. Arfan Ikram,W. T. Longstreth,Thomas H. Mosley,Sudha Seshadri,Nick Shrine,Louise V. Wain,Mario A. Morken,Amy J. Swift,Jaana Laitinen,Inga Prokopenko,Inga Prokopenko,Paavo Zitting,Jackie A. Cooper,Steve E. Humphries,John Danesh,Asif Rasheed,Anuj Goel,Anders Hamsten,Hugh Watkins,Stephan J. L. Bakker,Wiek H. van Gilst,C. S. Janipalli,K. Radha Mani,Chittaranjan S. Yajnik,Albert Hofman,Francesco U.S. Mattace-Raso,Ben A. Oostra,Ayse Demirkan,Aaron Isaacs,Fernando Rivadeneira,Edward G. Lakatta,Marco Orrù,Angelo Scuteri,Mika Ala-Korpela,Mika Ala-Korpela,Antti J. Kangas,Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen,Pasi Soininen,Pasi Soininen,Taru Tukiainen,Taru Tukiainen,Taru Tukiainen,Peter Würtz,Peter Würtz,Peter Würtz,Rick Twee-HeeOng,Rick Twee-HeeOng,Marcus Dörr,Heyo K. Kroemer,Uwe Völker,Henry Völzke,Pilar Galan,Serge Hercberg,Mark Lathrop,Diana Zelenika,Panos Deloukas,Massimo Mangino,Tim D. Spector,Guangju Zhai,James F. Meschia,Mike A. Nalls,Pankaj Sharma,Janoš Terzić,M.V. Kranthi Kumar,Matthew Denniff,Ewa Zukowska-Szczechowska,Lynne E. Wagenknecht,F. Gerald R. Fowkes,Fadi J. Charchar,Peter Schwarz,Caroline Hayward,Xiuqing Guo,Charles N. Rotimi,Michiel L. Bots,Eva Brand,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. 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Rotter,Rainer Rettig,Manuela Uda,David P. Strachan,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,Anna-Liisa Hartikainen,Jacques S. Beckmann,Eric Boerwinkle,Ramachandran S. Vasan,Ramachandran S. Vasan,Michael Boehnke,Martin G. Larson,Martin G. Larson,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Bruce M. Psaty,Bruce M. Psaty,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Aravinda Chakravarti,Paul Elliott,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Daniel Levy,Mark J. Caulfield,Toby Johnson +391 more
TL;DR: A genetic risk score based on 29 genome-wide significant variants was associated with hypertension, left ventricular wall thickness, stroke and coronary artery disease, but not kidney disease or kidney function, and these findings suggest potential novel therapeutic pathways for cardiovascular disease prevention.
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Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height
Hana Lango Allen,Karol Estrada,Guillaume Lettre,Sonja I. Berndt,Michael N. Weedon,Fernando Rivadeneira,Cristen J. Willer,Anne U. Jackson,Sailaja Vedantam,Sailaja Vedantam,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Teresa Ferreira,Andrew R. Wood,Robert J. Weyant,Ayellet V. Segrè,Ayellet V. Segrè,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Eleanor Wheeler,Nicole Soranzo,Nicole Soranzo,Ju-Hyun Park,Jian Yang,Daniel F. Gudbjartsson,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Joshua C. Randall,Lu Qi,Albert V. Smith,Reedik Mägi,Tomi Pastinen,Liming Liang,Iris M. Heid,Jian'an Luan,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Thomas W. Winkler,Michael E. Goddard,Michael E. Goddard,Ken Sin Lo,Cameron D. Palmer,Cameron D. Palmer,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Yurii S. Aulchenko,Åsa Johansson,Åsa Johansson,M. Carola Zillikens,Mary F. Feitosa,Tõnu Esko,Tõnu Esko,Toby Johnson,Toby Johnson,Toby Johnson,Shamika Ketkar,Peter Kraft,Massimo Mangino,Inga Prokopenko,Devin Absher,Eva Albrecht,Florian Ernst,Nicole L. Glazer,Caroline Hayward,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Kevin B. Jacobs,Joshua W. Knowles,Zoltán Kutalik,Zoltán Kutalik,Keri L. Monda,Ozren Polasek,Michael Preuss,Nigel W. Rayner,Neil R. Robertson,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Jonathan Tyrer,Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Fredrik Wiklund,Jianfeng Xu,Jing Hua Zhao,Dale R. Nyholt,Niina Pellikka,Niina Pellikka,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,John Perry,Ida Surakka,Ida Surakka,Mari Liis Tammesoo,Elizabeth L. Altmaier,Elizabeth L. Altmaier,Najaf Amin,Thor Aspelund,Tushar Bhangale,Gabrielle Boucher,Daniel I. Chasman,Constance Chen,Lachlan J. M. Coin,Mark E. Cooper,Anna L. Dixon,Quince Gibson,Elin Grundberg,Elin Grundberg,Ke Hao,M. Juhani Junttila,Lee M. Kaplan,Johannes Kettunen,Johannes Kettunen,Inke R. König,Tony Kwan,Robert W. Lawrence,Douglas F. Levinson,Mattias Lorentzon,Barbara McKnight,Andrew P. Morris,Martina Müller,Julius S. Ngwa,Shaun Purcell,Shaun Purcell,Suzanne Rafelt,Rany M. Salem,Rany M. Salem,Erika Salvi,Serena Sanna,Jianxin Shi,Ulla Sovio,John R. Thompson,John R. Thompson,Michael C. Turchin,Michael C. Turchin,Liesbeth Vandenput,Dominique J. Verlaan,Veronique Vitart,Charles C. White,Andreas Ziegler,Peter Almgren,Anthony J. Balmforth,Harry Campbell,Lorena Citterio,Alessandro De Grandi,Anna F. Dominiczak,Jubao Duan,Paul Elliott,Roberto Elosua,Johan G. Eriksson,Nelson B. Freimer,Eco J. C. de Geus,Nicola Glorioso,Shen Haiqing,Anna-Liisa Hartikainen,Aki S. Havulinna,Andrew A. Hicks,Jennie Hui,Jennie Hui,Wilmar Igl,Thomas Illig,Antti Jula,Eero Kajantie,Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen,Markku Koiranen,Ivana Kolcic,Seppo Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Jaana Laitinen,Jianjun Liu,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Ana Marušić,Andrea Maschio,Thomas Meitinger,Antonella Mulas,Guillaume Paré,Alex N. Parker,John F. Peden,Astrid Petersmann,Irene Pichler,Kirsi H. Pietiläinen,Anneli Pouta,Anneli Pouta,Martin Ridderstråle,Jerome I. Rotter,Jennifer G. Sambrook,Jennifer G. Sambrook,Alan R. Sanders,Carsten Oliver Schmidt,Juha Sinisalo,Jan Smit,Heather M. Stringham,G. Bragi Walters,Elisabeth Widen,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Laura Zagato,Lina Zgaga,Paavo Zitting,Helene Alavere,Martin Farrall,Wendy L. McArdle,Mari Nelis,Mari Nelis,Marjolein J. Peters,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Joyce B. J. van Meurs,Katja K.H. Aben,Kristin G. Ardlie,Jacques S. Beckmann,John Beilby,John Beilby,Richard N. Bergman,Sven Bergmann,Sven Bergmann,Francis S. Collins,Daniele Cusi,Martin den Heijer,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Pablo V. Gejman,Alistair S. Hall,Anders Hamsten,Heikki V. Huikuri,Carlos Iribarren,Carlos Iribarren,Mika Kähönen,Jaakko Kaprio,Jaakko Kaprio,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Thomas D. Kocher,Lenore J. Launer,Terho Lehtimäki,Olle Melander,Thomas H. Mosley,Arthur W. Musk,Arthur W. Musk,Markku S. Nieminen,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Claes Ohlsson,Ben A. Oostra,Lyle J. Palmer,Lyle J. Palmer,Olli T. Raitakari,Paul M. Ridker,John D. Rioux,Aila Rissanen,Carlo Rivolta,Heribert Schunkert,Alan R. Shuldiner,Alan R. Shuldiner,David S. Siscovick,Michael Stumvoll,Anke Tönjes,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Gert-Jan B. van Ommen,Jorma Viikari,Andrew C. Heath,Nicholas G. Martin,Grant W. Montgomery,Michael A. Province,Manfred Kayser,Alice M. Arnold,Larry D. Atwood,Eric Boerwinkle,Stephen J. Chanock,Panos Deloukas,Christian Gieger,Henrik Grönberg,Per Hall,Andrew T. Hattersley,Christian Hengstenberg,Wolfgang Hoffman,G. Mark Lathrop,Veikko Salomaa,Stefan Schreiber,Manuela Uda,Dawn M. Waterworth,Alan F. Wright,Themistocles L. Assimes,Inês Barroso,Inês Barroso,Albert Hofman,Karen L. Mohlke,Dorret I. Boomsma,Mark J. Caulfield,L. Adrienne Cupples,Jeanette Erdmann,Caroline S. Fox,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,Tamara B. Harris,Richard B. Hayes,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Vincent Mooser,Patricia B. Munroe,Willem H. Ouwehand,Willem H. Ouwehand,Willem H. Ouwehand,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Peter P. Pramstaller,Thomas Quertermous,Igor Rudan,Igor Rudan,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Tim D. Spector,Henry Völzke,Hugh Watkins,James F. Wilson,Leif Groop,Talin Haritunians,Frank B. Hu,Robert C. Kaplan,Andres Metspalu,Andres Metspalu,Kari E. North,David Schlessinger,Nicholas J. Wareham,David J. Hunter,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,David P. Strachan,H.-Erich Wichmann,Ingrid B. Borecki,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Eric E. Schadt,Eric E. Schadt,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Leena Peltonen,André G. Uitterlinden,Peter M. Visscher,Nilanjan Chatterjee,Ruth J. F. Loos,Michael Boehnke,Mark I. McCarthy,Erik Ingelsson,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Timothy M. Frayling,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Joel N. Hirschhorn +344 more
TL;DR: It is shown that hundreds of genetic variants, in at least 180 loci, influence adult height, a highly heritable and classic polygenic trait, and indicates that GWA studies can identify large numbers of loci that implicate biologically relevant genes and pathways.