… epigenome-wide association study (EWAS) on general adiposity (body mass index, BMI)
and abdominal adiposity (waist … and suggests that obesity can drive methylation change. The …

… ) in West-Africans are lacking. The aim of this study was to identify DNA-methylation loci …
To ensure normal distribution of the lipid traits, rank-based inverse normal transformation was …

… six trans-ethnic epigenome-wide association studies (EWASs) of BMI … differed between
individuals of European and African … mediated changes in gene function which do not change the …

… further completed epigenome-wide association studies (EWAS) to test for the association of
… omics paradigm to trace molecular changes through layers of biological information, and it …

… ) among Black/African American (AA) populations, who are … this study was unable to
determine whether the DNAm changes associated with BMI are causal or a consequence of BMI. …

… previously published epigenome-wide association studies of … , smoking, body mass index,
waist circumference, C-reactive … amounting to 0.87% methylation change per year increase in …

… This study performed a longitudinal epigenome-wide association analysis of DNA methylation
to uncover novel loci associated with BMI change in … Epigenome-wide association study …

… 42 CpG sites associated with BMI at the FDR < 5% and the top 76 CpG sites identified in a
meta-analysis of 18 studies of BMI and/or waist circumference in non-pregnant populations [10…

… BMI adjusted waist circumference and BMI adjusted waist-to-hip ratio (Additional file 2:
Supplementary Table S8). In the EWAS … DNA methylation changes in association with continuous …

… hypothesis that methylation changes are a consequence of obesity [17… EWAS and assigned
to 26 genes. We successfully replicated 5 of them previously reported in European or African …