Genome-wide association scan meta-analysis identifies three Loci influencing adiposity and fat distribution

CM Lindgren, IM Heid, JC Randall, C Lamina… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
… Here, we describe a meta-analysis of genome-wide association data from 38,580 … to uncover
variants influencing anthropometric measures of central obesity and fat distribution, namely …

[HTML][HTML] Large meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies identifies five loci for lean body mass

MC Zillikens, S Demissie, YH Hsu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Lean body mass, consisting mostly of skeletal muscle, is important for healthy aging. We
performed a genome-wide association study for whole body (20 cohorts of European ancestry …

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies novel susceptibility loci for obesity

YF Pei, L Zhang, Y Liu, J Li, H Shen… - Human molecular …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… attributable to obesity (24). In the present study, aiming to identify additional genetic
variants associated with human obesity, we conducted a GWA meta-analysis for obesity-related …

Correction: Genome-wide association scan meta-analysis identifies three loci influencing adiposity and fat distribution

CM Lindgren, IM Heid, JC Randall, C Lamina… - PLoS …, 2009 - cdr.lib.unc.edu
… Here, we describe a meta-analysis of genome-wide association data from 38,580 … to uncover
variants influencing anthropometric measures of central obesity and fat distribution, namely …

Metaanalysis of genomewide linkage studies in BMI and obesity

CL Saunders, BD Chiodini, P Sham, CM Lewis… - …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
… increase statistical power, studies that take into account environmental factors, or genome-wide
association strategies, all of which should be able to detect genes of smaller effect. …

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for body fat distribution in 694 649 individuals of European ancestry

SL Pulit, C Stoneman, AP Morris… - Human molecular …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
adiposity, are more informative for predicting risk of obesity … a genome-wide association
study meta-analysis of body fat … ), and identified 463 signals in 346 loci. Heritability and variant …

A meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for adiponectin levels in East Asians identifies a novel locus near WDR11-FGFR2

Y Wu, H Gao, H Li, Y Tabara… - Human molecular …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
… We carried out the first meta-analysis of GWA studies for … aimed to identify novel
adiponectin-associated variants/loci, … novel loci by evaluating evidence of association with obesity

A meta-analysis of quantitative trait loci associated with body weight and adiposity in mice

S Wuschke, S Dahm, C Schmidt, HG Joost… - … journal of obesity, 2007 - nature.com
… quantitative trait loci (QTL) as a basis for a systematic investigation of candidate genes, we
have performed a meta-analysis of genome-wide linkage scans for body weight and body fat. …

Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies 17 loci associated with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease

Y Chen, X Du, A Kuppa, MF Feitosa, LF Bielak… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
… a multi-ancestry meta-analysis of CT-measured liver fat (Genetics of Obesity-related … 3 (PNPLA3),
verifying congruency across phenotypes. We identified 17 independent genome-wide

The power of meta-analysis in genome-wide association studies

OA Panagiotou, CJ Willer, JN Hirschhorn… - Annual review of …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
Meta-analysis of multiple genome-wide association (GWA) … Moreover, one can use meta-analysis
to probe and identify … discovery of additional genetic associations and new biology in …