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GWAS 2025-09-26

Genetic impact of central adiposity on systolic blood pressure in females: interaction and mediation by TG/HDL-C, HbA1c, and uric acid across BMI categories.

Gumilang RA, Bai CH

Int J Obes (Lond)

Genetic predisposition to central adiposity is associated with metabolic dysfunction and obesity-rel...

Waist circumference

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GWAS 2024-07-07

Novel genomic variants related to visceral adiposity index (VAI) and body adiposity index (BAI) in Indian sib-pairs.

Agarwal T, Lyngdoh T et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Obesity is among the leading public health threats globally. Over the last few years, visceral adipo...

Visceral adiposity index (adjusted for BMI)

4530

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GWAS 2023-02-17

Identification and characterization of the long non-coding RNA NFIA-AS2 as a novel locus for body mass index in American Indians.

Bandesh K, Traurig M et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Genome-wide association studies have shown that body mass index (BMI), an estimate of obesity, is hi...

Body mass index

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246478

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GWAS 2022-05-10

Causality of abdominal obesity on cognition: a trans-ethnic Mendelian randomization study.

Wang SH, Su MH et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Obesity has been associated with cognition in observational studies; however, whether its effect is ...

Waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for BMI

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GWAS 2021-04-27

Genome-wide association study of neck circumference identifies sex-specific loci independent of generalized adiposity.

Liu Y, Zhang X et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Background/objectives: Neck circumference, an index of upper airway fat, has been suggested to be an...

Neck circumference

Replicated

16555

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GWAS 2020-07-27

Four pleiotropic loci associated with fat mass and lean mass.

Liu Y, Ran S et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Fat mass and lean mass are two biggest components of body mass. Both fat mass and lean mass are unde...

Leg fat mass (lean adjusted)

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382614

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GWAS 2019-04-03

Identification of a 1p21 independent functional variant for abdominal obesity.

Liu L, Pei YF et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Objectives: Aiming to uncover the genetic basis of abdominal obesity, we performed a genome-wide ass...

Trunk fat mass adjusted for trunk lean mass

11569

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GWAS 2018-08-17

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in a cohort of significantly obese women without cardiometabolic diseases.

Schlauch KA, Kulick D et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Background/objectives: Obesity is an important risk factor for the development of diseases such as d...

Obesity without metabolic disease

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GWAS 2018-06-13

Genome-wide association study of habitual physical activity in over 377,000 UK Biobank participants identifies multiple variants including CADM2 and APOE.

Klimentidis YC, Raichlen DA et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Background/objectives: Physical activity (PA) protects against a wide range of diseases. Habitual PA...

Accelerometer-based physical activity measurement (fraction of time with accelerations >425 milli-gravities)

90667

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GWAS 2017-12-21

Trans-ethnic analysis of metabochip data identifies two new loci associated with BMI.

Gong J, Nishimura KK et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Objective: Body mass index (BMI) is commonly used to assess obesity, which is associated with numero...

Body mass index

102514

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GWAS 2017-11-30

Identification of novel alleles associated with insulin resistance in childhood obesity using pooled-DNA genome-wide association study approach.

Kotnik P, Knapič E et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Recently, we witnessed great progress in the discovery of genetic variants associated with obesity a...

Childhood insulin resistance

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355

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GWAS 2017-10-09

Maternal and fetal genetic contribution to gestational weight gain.

Warrington NM, Richmond R et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Clinical recommendations to limit gestational weight gain (GWG) imply high GWG is causally related t...

Early gestational weight gain (fetal effect)

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Genetic impact of central adiposity on systolic blood pressure in females: interaction and mediation by TG/HDL-C, HbA1c, and uric acid across BMI categories.

Gumilang RA, Bai CH

Int J Obes (Lond)

Waist circumference

2025-09-26

Novel genomic variants related to visceral adiposity index (VAI) and body adiposity index (BAI) in Indian sib-pairs.

Agarwal T, Lyngdoh T et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Visceral adiposity index (adjusted for BMI)

2024-07-07

Identification and characterization of the long non-coding RNA NFIA-AS2 as a novel locus for body mass index in American Indians.

Bandesh K, Traurig M et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Body mass index

2023-02-17

Causality of abdominal obesity on cognition: a trans-ethnic Mendelian randomization study.

Wang SH, Su MH et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for BMI

2022-05-10

Genome-wide association study of neck circumference identifies sex-specific loci independent of generalized adiposity.

Liu Y, Zhang X et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Neck circumference

2021-04-27

Four pleiotropic loci associated with fat mass and lean mass.

Liu Y, Ran S et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Leg fat mass (lean adjusted)

2020-07-27

Identification of a 1p21 independent functional variant for abdominal obesity.

Liu L, Pei YF et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Trunk fat mass adjusted for trunk lean mass

2019-04-03

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in a cohort of significantly obese women without cardiometabolic diseases.

Schlauch KA, Kulick D et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Obesity without metabolic disease

2018-08-17

Genome-wide association study of habitual physical activity in over 377,000 UK Biobank participants identifies multiple variants including CADM2 and APOE.

Klimentidis YC, Raichlen DA et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Accelerometer-based physical activity measurement (fraction of time with accelerations >425 milli-gravities)

2018-06-13

Trans-ethnic analysis of metabochip data identifies two new loci associated with BMI.

Gong J, Nishimura KK et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Body mass index

2017-12-21

Identification of novel alleles associated with insulin resistance in childhood obesity using pooled-DNA genome-wide association study approach.

Kotnik P, Knapič E et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Childhood insulin resistance

2017-11-30

Maternal and fetal genetic contribution to gestational weight gain.

Warrington NM, Richmond R et al.

Int J Obes (Lond)

Early gestational weight gain (fetal effect)

2017-10-09