| Literature DB >> 17496892 |
Christian Dina1, David Meyre, Sophie Gallina, Emmanuelle Durand, Antje Körner, Peter Jacobson, Lena M S Carlsson, Wieland Kiess, Vincent Vatin, Cecile Lecoeur, Jérome Delplanque, Emmanuel Vaillant, François Pattou, Juan Ruiz, Jacques Weill, Claire Levy-Marchal, Fritz Horber, Natascha Potoczna, Serge Hercberg, Catherine Le Stunff, Pierre Bougnères, Peter Kovacs, Michel Marre, Beverley Balkau, Stéphane Cauchi, Jean-Claude Chèvre, Philippe Froguel.
Abstract
We identified a set of SNPs in the first intron of the FTO (fat mass and obesity associated) gene on chromosome 16q12.2 that is consistently strongly associated with early-onset and severe obesity in both adults and children of European ancestry with an experiment-wise P value of 1.67 x 10(-26) in 2,900 affected individuals and 5,100 controls. The at-risk haplotype yields a proportion of attributable risk of 22% for common obesity. We conclude that FTO contributes to human obesity and hence may be a target for subsequent functional analyses.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID： 17496892 DOI： 10.1038/ng2048
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Genet ISSN： 1061-4036 Impact factor: 38.330