Skip to Content
Merck
  • Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index.

Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index.

Nature genetics (2010-10-12)
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 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, Karol 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, Andre Scherag, Albert Vernon Smith, Ryan Welch, Jing Hua Zhao, Katja K Aben, Devin M Absher, Najaf Amin, Anna L Dixon, Eva Fisher, Nicole L Glazer, Michael E Goddard, Nancy L Heard-Costa, Volker Hoesel, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Asa Johansson, Toby Johnson, Shamika Ketkar, Claudia Lamina, Shengxu Li, Miriam F Moffatt, Richard H Myers, Narisu Narisu, John R B Perry, Marjolein J Peters, Michael Preuss, Samuli Ripatti, Fernando Rivadeneira, Camilla Sandholt, Laura J Scott, Nicholas J Timpson, Jonathan P Tyrer, Sophie van Wingerden, Richard M Watanabe, Charles C White, Fredrik Wiklund, Christina Barlassina, Daniel I Chasman, Matthew N Cooper, John-Olov Jansson, Robert W Lawrence, Niina Pellikka, Inga Prokopenko, Jianxin Shi, Elisabeth Thiering, Helene Alavere, Maria T S 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 J Brown, Thomas A Buchanan, Fabio Busonero, Harry Campbell, Francesco P Cappuccio, Christine Cavalcanti-Proença, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Chih-Mei Chen, Peter S Chines, Robert Clarke, Lachlan Coin, John 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, Nele Friedrich, Nelson B Freimer, Mao Fu, Stefan Gaget, Pablo V Gejman, Eco J C Geus, Christian Gieger, Anette P Gjesing, Anuj Goel, Philippe Goyette, Harald Grallert, Jürgen Grässler, 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, Bo Isomaa, Kevin B Jacobs, Ivonne Jarick, Elizabeth 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 König, Seppo Koskinen, Peter Kovacs, Johanna Kuusisto, Peter Kraft, Kirsti Kvaløy, Jaana Laitinen, Olivier Lantieri, Chiara Lanzani, Lenore J Launer, Cecile Lecoeur, Terho Lehtimäki, Guillaume Lettre, Jianjun Liu, Marja-Liisa Lokki, Mattias Lorentzon, Robert N 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, Kristian Midthjell, Grant W Montgomery, Mario A Morken, Andrew P Morris, Rosanda Mulic, Julius S Ngwa, Mari Nelis, Matt J Neville, Dale R Nyholt, Christopher J O'Donnell, Stephen O'Rahilly, Ken K Ong, Ben Oostra, Guillaume Paré, Alex N Parker, Markus Perola, Irene Pichler, Kirsi H Pietiläinen, Carl G P Platou, Ozren Polasek, Anneli Pouta, Suzanne Rafelt, Olli 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, Susann Scherag, Sabine Schipf, Stefan Schreiber, Heribert Schunkert, Kaisa Silander, Juha Sinisalo, David S Siscovick, Jan H Smit, Nicole Soranzo, Ulla Sovio, Jonathan Stephens, Ida Surakka, Amy J Swift, Mari-Liis Tammesoo, Jean-Claude Tardif, Maris Teder-Laving, Tanya M Teslovich, John R Thompson, Brian Thomson, Anke Tönjes, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Joyce B J van Meurs, Gert-Jan van Ommen, Vincent Vatin, Jorma 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 Witteman, Jianfeng Xu, Qunyuan Zhang, Lina Zgaga, Andreas Ziegler, Paavo Zitting, John P Beilby, I Sadaf 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, 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, 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 Jarvelin, 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 Penninx, Annette Peters, Peter P Pramstaller, Thomas Quertermous, Thomas Reinehr, Aila Rissanen, Igor Rudan, Nilesh J Samani, Peter E H Schwarz, Alan R Shuldiner, Timothy D Spector, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Manuela Uda, André Uitterlinden, Timo T Valle, Martin Wabitsch, Gérard 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 C Groop, Talin Haritunians, 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, Gonçalo R Abecasis, Inês Barroso, Michael Boehnke, Kari Stefansson, Kari E North, Mark I McCarthy, Joel N Hirschhorn, Erik Ingelsson, Ruth J F Loos
ABSTRACT

Obesity is globally prevalent and highly heritable, but its underlying genetic factors remain largely elusive. To identify genetic loci for obesity susceptibility, we examined associations between body mass index and ∼ 2.8 million SNPs in up to 123,865 individuals with targeted follow up of 42 SNPs in up to 125,931 additional individuals. We confirmed 14 known obesity susceptibility loci and identified 18 new loci associated with body mass index (P < 5 × 10⁻⁸), one of which includes a copy number variant near GPRC5B. Some loci (at MC4R, POMC, SH2B1 and BDNF) map near key hypothalamic regulators of energy balance, and one of these loci is near GIPR, an incretin receptor. Furthermore, genes in other newly associated loci may provide new insights into human body weight regulation.