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

Lean body mass is a highly heritable trait and is associated with various health conditions. Here, Kiel and colleagues perform a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for whole body lean body mass and find five novel genetic loci to be significantly associated.

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Main Authors: M. Carola Zillikens, Serkalem Demissie, Yi-Hsiang Hsu, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Wen-Chi Chou, Lisette Stolk, Gregory Livshits, Linda Broer, Toby Johnson, Daniel L. Koller, Zoltán Kutalik, Jian’an Luan, Ida Malkin, Janina S. Ried, Albert V. Smith, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Liesbeth Vandenput, Jing Hua Zhao, Weihua Zhang, Ali Aghdassi, Kristina Åkesson, Najaf Amin, Leslie J. Baier, Inês Barroso, David A. Bennett, Lars Bertram, Rainer Biffar, Murielle Bochud, Michael Boehnke, Ingrid B. Borecki, Aron S. Buchman, Liisa Byberg, Harry Campbell, Natalia Campos Obanda, Jane A. Cauley, Peggy M. Cawthon, Henna Cederberg, Zhao Chen, Nam H. Cho, Hyung Jin Choi, Melina Claussnitzer, Francis Collins, Steven R. Cummings, Philip L. De Jager, Ilja Demuth, Rosalie A. M. Dhonukshe-Rutten, Luda Diatchenko, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Anke W. Enneman, Mike Erdos, Johan G. Eriksson, Joel Eriksson, Karol Estrada, Daniel S. Evans, Mary F. Feitosa, Mao Fu, Melissa Garcia, Christian Gieger, Thomas Girke, Nicole L. Glazer, Harald Grallert, Jagvir Grewal, Bok-Ghee Han, Robert L. Hanson, Caroline Hayward, Albert Hofman, Eric P. Hoffman, Georg Homuth, Wen-Chi Hsueh, Monica J. Hubal, Alan Hubbard, Kim M. Huffman, Lise B. Husted, Thomas Illig, Erik Ingelsson, Till Ittermann, John-Olov Jansson, Joanne M. Jordan, Antti Jula, Magnus Karlsson, Kay-Tee Khaw, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Norman Klopp, Jacqueline S. L. Kloth, Heikki A. Koistinen, William E. Kraus, Stephen Kritchevsky, Teemu Kuulasmaa, Johanna Kuusisto, Markku Laakso, Jari Lahti, Thomas Lang, Bente L. Langdahl, Lenore J. Launer, Jong-Young Lee, Markus M. Lerch, Joshua R. Lewis, Lars Lind, Cecilia Lindgren, Yongmei Liu, Tian Liu, Youfang Liu, Östen Ljunggren, Mattias Lorentzon, Robert N. Luben, William Maixner, Fiona E. McGuigan, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Thomas Meitinger, Håkan Melhus, Dan Mellström, Simon Melov, Karl Michaëlsson, Braxton D. Mitchell, Andrew P. Morris, Leif Mosekilde, Anne Newman, Carrie M. Nielson, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Ben A. Oostra, Eric S. Orwoll, Aarno Palotie, Stephen C. J. Parker, Munro Peacock, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ozren Polasek, Richard L. Prince, Katri Räikkönen, Stuart H. Ralston, Samuli Ripatti, John A. Robbins, Jerome I. Rotter, Igor Rudan, Veikko Salomaa, Suzanne Satterfield, Eric E. Schadt, Sabine Schipf, Laura Scott, Joban Sehmi, Jian Shen, Chan Soo Shin, Gunnar Sigurdsson, Shad Smith, Nicole Soranzo, Alena Stančáková, Elisabeth Steinhagen-Thiessen, Elizabeth A. Streeten, Unnur Styrkarsdottir, Karin M. A. Swart, Sian-Tsung Tan, Mark A. Tarnopolsky, Patricia Thompson, Cynthia A. Thomson, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Emmi Tikkanen, Gregory J. Tranah, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Natasja M. van Schoor, Arjun Verma, Peter Vollenweider, Henry Völzke, Jean Wactawski-Wende, Mark Walker, Michael N. Weedon, Ryan Welch, H.-Erich Wichmann, Elisabeth Widen, Frances M. K. Williams, James F. Wilson, Nicole C. Wright, Weijia Xie, Lei Yu, Yanhua Zhou, John C. Chambers, Angela Döring, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Michael J. Econs, Vilmundur Gudnason, Jaspal S. Kooner, Bruce M. Psaty, Timothy D. Spector, Kari Stefansson, Fernando Rivadeneira, André G. Uitterlinden, Nicholas J. Wareham, Vicky Ossowski, Dawn Waterworth, Ruth J. F. Loos, David Karasik, Tamara B. Harris, Claes Ohlsson, Douglas P. Kiel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00031-7