Harald Grallert
Helmholtz Zentrum München
349 Papers
5.8K Citations
Harald Grallert is an academic researcher from Helmholtz Zentrum München. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Population. The author has an hindex of 82, co-authored 293 publications. Previous affiliations of Harald Grallert include Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich & University of Düsseldorf.
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Discovery and refinement of loci associated with lipid levels
Cristen J. Willer,Ellen M. Schmidt,Sebanti Sengupta,Gina M. Peloso,Gina M. Peloso,Gina M. Peloso,Stefan Gustafsson,Stavroula Kanoni,Andrea Ganna,Andrea Ganna,Jin Chen,Martin L. Buchkovich,Samia Mora,Jacques S. Beckmann,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Hsing-Yi Chang,Ayse Demirkan,Heleen M. den Hertog,Ron Do,Louise A. Donnelly,Georg Ehret,Georg Ehret,Tõnu Esko,Tõnu Esko,Mary F. Feitosa,Teresa Ferreira,Krista Fischer,Pierre Fontanillas,Ross M. Fraser,Daniel F. Freitag,Deepti Gurdasani,Deepti Gurdasani,Kauko Heikkilä,Elina Hyppönen,Aaron Isaacs,Anne U. Jackson,Åsa Johansson,Toby Johnson,Marika Kaakinen,Johannes Kettunen,Johannes Kettunen,Marcus E. Kleber,Marcus E. Kleber,Xiaohui Li,Jian'an Luan,Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Massimo Mangino,Evelin Mihailov,May E. Montasser,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Ilja M. Nolte,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Cameron D. Palmer,Cameron D. Palmer,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,Ann-Kristin Petersen,Serena Sanna,Richa Saxena,Sonia Shah,Dmitry Shungin,Dmitry Shungin,Carlo Sidore,Carlo Sidore,Ci Song,Ci Song,Rona J. Strawbridge,Ida Surakka,Ida Surakka,Toshiko Tanaka,Tanya M. Teslovich,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Evita G. Van Den Herik,Benjamin F. Voight,Kelly A. Volcik,Lindsay L. Waite,Andrew Wong,Ying Wu,Weihua Zhang,Weihua Zhang,Devin Absher,Gershim Asiki,Inês Barroso,Inês Barroso,Inês Barroso,Latonya F. Been,Jennifer L. Bolton,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Paolo Brambilla,Mary Susan Burnett,Giancarlo Cesana,Maria Dimitriou,Alex S. F. Doney,Angela Döring,Paul Elliott,Paul Elliott,Stephen E. Epstein,Gudmundur I. Eyjolfsson,Bruna Gigante,Mark O. Goodarzi,Harald Grallert,Martha L. Gravito,Christopher J. Groves,Göran Hallmans,Anna-Liisa Hartikainen,Caroline Hayward,Dena G. Hernandez,Andrew A. Hicks,Hilma Holm,Yi Jen Hung,Thomas Illig,Matthew Jones,Pontiano Kaleebu,John J.P. Kastelein,Kay-Tee Khaw,Eric Kim,Norman Klopp,Pirjo Komulainen,Meena Kumari,Claudia Langenberg,Terho Lehtimäki,Shih-Yi Lin,Jaana Lindström,Ruth J. F. Loos,Ruth J. F. Loos,François Mach,Wendy L. McArdle,Christa Meisinger,Braxton D. Mitchell,Gabrielle Müller,Ramaiah Nagaraja,Narisu Narisu,Tuomo Nieminen,Rebecca N. Nsubuga,Isleifur Olafsson,Ken K. Ong,Ken K. Ong,Aarno Palotie,Aarno Palotie,Theodore Papamarkou,Theodore Papamarkou,Theodore Papamarkou,Cristina Pomilla,Cristina Pomilla,Anneli Pouta,Anneli Pouta,Daniel J. Rader,Muredach P. Reilly,Paul M. Ridker,Fernando Rivadeneira,Igor Rudan,Aimo Ruokonen,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Hubert Scharnagl,Janet Seeley,Janet Seeley,Kaisa Silander,Kaisa Silander,Alena Stančáková,Kathleen Stirrups,Amy J. Swift,Laurence Tiret,André G. Uitterlinden,L. Joost van Pelt,Sailaja Vedantam,Sailaja Vedantam,Nicholas W.J. Wainwright,Nicholas W.J. Wainwright,Cisca Wijmenga,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Tom Wilsgaard,James F. Wilson,Elizabeth H. Young,Elizabeth H. Young,Jing Hua Zhao,Linda S. Adair,Dominique Arveiler,Themistocles L. Assimes,Stefania Bandinelli,Franklyn I. Bennett,Murielle Bochud,Bernhard O. Boehm,Bernhard O. Boehm,Dorret I. Boomsma,Ingrid B. Borecki,Stefan R. Bornstein,Pascal Bovet,Michel Burnier,Harry Campbell,Aravinda Chakravarti,John C. Chambers,John C. Chambers,John C. Chambers,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Francis S. Collins,Richard S. Cooper,John Danesh,George Dedoussis,Ulf de Faire,Alan B. Feranil,Jean Ferrières,Luigi Ferrucci,Nelson B. Freimer,Christian Gieger,Leif Groop,Leif Groop,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,Anders Hamsten,Tamara B. Harris,Aroon D. Hingorani,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Albert Hofman,G. Kees Hovingh,Chao A. Hsiung,Steve E. Humphries,Steven C. Hunt,Kristian Hveem,Carlos Iribarren,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Antti Jula,Mika Kähönen,Jaakko Kaprio,Jaakko Kaprio,Antero Kesäniemi,Mika Kivimäki,Jaspal S. Kooner,Jaspal S. Kooner,Jaspal S. Kooner,Peter J. Koudstaal,Ronald M. Krauss,Diana Kuh,Johanna Kuusisto,Kirsten Ohm Kyvik,Markku Laakso,Timo A. Lakka,Timo A. Lakka,Lars Lind,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Nicholas G. Martin,Winfried März,Winfried März,Winfried März,Mark I. McCarthy,Colin A. McKenzie,Pierre Meneton,Andres Metspalu,Leena Moilanen,Andrew D. Morris,Patricia B. Munroe,Inger Njølstad,Nancy L. Pedersen,Chris Power,Peter P. Pramstaller,Peter P. Pramstaller,Jackie F. Price,Bruce M. Psaty,Bruce M. Psaty,Thomas Quertermous,Rainer Rauramaa,Rainer Rauramaa,Danish Saleheen,Danish Saleheen,Veikko Salomaa,Dharambir K. Sanghera,Jouko Saramies,Peter Schwarz,Wayne Huey-Herng Sheu,Alan R. Shuldiner,Alan R. Shuldiner,Agneta Siegbahn,Tim D. Spector,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,David P. Strachan,Bamidele O. Tayo,Elena Tremoli,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Matti Uusitupa,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Peter Vollenweider,Lars Wallentin,Nicholas J. Wareham,John Whitfield,Bruce H. R. Wolffenbuttel,Jose M. Ordovas,Jose M. Ordovas,Eric Boerwinkle,Colin N. A. Palmer,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Daniel I. Chasman,Jerome I. Rotter,Paul W. Franks,Paul W. Franks,Paul W. Franks,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,L. Adrienne Cupples,L. Adrienne Cupples,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Stephen S. Rich,Michael Boehnke,Panos Deloukas,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Karen L. Mohlke,Erik Ingelsson,Erik Ingelsson,Gonçalo R. Abecasis +319 more
TL;DR: It is found that loci associated with blood lipid levels are often associated with cardiovascular and metabolic traits, including coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, blood pressure, waist-hip ratio and body mass index.
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.
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
- 01 Jan 2015
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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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.
Large-scale association analysis provides insights into the genetic architecture and pathophysiology of type 2 diabetes
Andrew P. Morris,Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Tanya M. Teslovich,Teresa Ferreira,Ayellet V. Segrè,Ayellet V. Segrè,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Rona J. Strawbridge,Hassan Khan,Harald Grallert,Anubha Mahajan,Inga Prokopenko,Hyun Min Kang,Christian Dina,Tõnu Esko,Ross M. Fraser,Stavroula Kanoni,Ashok Kumar,Vasiliki Lagou,Claudia Langenberg,Jian'an Luan,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Sonali Pechlivanis,N. William Rayner,Laura J. Scott,S Wiltshire,Loic Yengo,Leena Kinnunen,Elizabeth J. Rossin,Elizabeth J. Rossin,Elizabeth J. Rossin,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Andrew D. Johnson,Antigone S. Dimas,Antigone S. Dimas,Antigone S. Dimas,Ruth J. F. Loos,Sailaja Vedantam,Sailaja Vedantam,Han Chen,Jose C. Florez,Jose C. Florez,Caroline S. Fox,Caroline S. Fox,Ching-Ti Liu,Denis Rybin,David Couper,Wen Hong L. Kao,Man Li,Marilyn C. Cornelis,Peter Kraft,Qi Sun,Rob M. van Dam,Rob M. van Dam,Heather M. Stringham,Peter S. Chines,Krista Fischer,Pierre Fontanillas,Oddgeir L. Holmen,Sarah E. Hunt,Anne U. Jackson,Augustine Kong,Robert W. Lawrence,Julia Meyer,John R. B. Perry,John R. B. Perry,Carl G. P. Platou,Simon C. Potter,Emil Rehnberg,Neil Robertson,Suthesh Sivapalaratnam,Alena Stančáková,Kathleen Stirrups,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Emmi Tikkanen,Emmi Tikkanen,Andrew R. Wood,Peter Almgren,Mustafa Atalay,Rafn Benediktsson,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Noël P. Burtt,Jason Carey,Guillaume Charpentier,Andrew Crenshaw,Alex S. F. Doney,Mozhgan Dorkhan,Sarah Edkins,Valur Emilsson,Elodie Eury,Tom Forsén,Karl Gertow,Bruna Gigante,George B. Grant,Christopher J. Groves,Candace Guiducci,Christian Herder,Astradur B. Hreidarsson,Jennie Hui,Jennie Hui,Alan James,Alan James,Anna Jonsson,Wolfgang Rathmann,Norman Klopp,Jasmina Kravic,Kaarel Krjutškov,Cordelia Langford,Karin Leander,Eero Lindholm,Stéphane Lobbens,Satu Männistö,Ghazala Mirza,Thomas W. Mühleisen,Bill Musk,Bill Musk,Melissa Parkin,Loukianos S. Rallidis,Jouko Saramies,Bengt Sennblad,Sonia Shah,Gunnar Sigurðsson,Angela Silveira,Gerald Steinbach,Barbara Thorand,Joseph Trakalo,Fabrizio Veglia,Roman Wennauer,Wendy Winckler,Delilah Zabaneh,Harry Campbell,Cornelia M. van Duijn,André G. Uitterlinden,Albert Hofman,Eric J.G. Sijbrands,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Katharine R. Owen,Eleftheria Zeggini,Mieke D. Trip,Nita G. Forouhi,Ann-Christine Syvänen,Johan G. Eriksson,Johan G. Eriksson,Leena Peltonen,Markus M. Nöthen,Beverley Balkau,Colin N. A. Palmer,Valeriya Lyssenko,Tiinamaija Tuomi,Bo Isomaa,David J. Hunter,Lu Qi,Alan R. Shuldiner,Alan R. Shuldiner,Michael Roden,Inês Barroso,Tom Wilsgaard,John Beilby,John Beilby,Kees Hovingh,Jackie F. Price,James F. Wilson,Rainer Rauramaa,Timo A. Lakka,Lars Lind,George Dedoussis,Inger Njølstad,Nancy L. Pedersen,Kay-Tee Khaw,Nicholas J. Wareham,Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi,Timo Saaristo,Eeva Korpi-Hyövälti,Juha Saltevo,Markku Laakso,Johanna Kuusisto,Andres Metspalu,Francis S. Collins,Karen L. Mohlke,Richard N. Bergman,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Bernhard O. Boehm,Christian Gieger,Kristian Hveem,Stéphane Cauchi,Philippe Froguel,Philippe Froguel,Damiano Baldassarre,Elena Tremoli,Steve E. Humphries,Danish Saleheen,John Danesh,Erik Ingelsson,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Veikko Salomaa,Raimund Erbel,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Susanne Moebus,Annette Peters,Thomas Illig,Ulf de Faire,Anders Hamsten,Andrew D. Morris,Peter Donnelly,Timothy M. Frayling,Andrew T. Hattersley,Eric Boerwinkle,Eric Boerwinkle,Olle Melander,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Peter M. Nilsson,Panos Deloukas,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Leif Groop,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Frank B. Hu,James S. Pankow,Josée Dupuis,Josée Dupuis,James B. Meigs,James B. Meigs,David Altshuler,David Altshuler,Michael Boehnke,Mark I. McCarthy +232 more
TL;DR: This article conducted a meta-analysis of genetic variants on the Metabochip, including 34,840 cases and 114,981 controls, overwhelmingly of European descent, and identified ten previously unreported T2D susceptibility loci, including two showing sex-differentiated association.
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