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1. Elizabeth K Speliotes, Cristen J Willer, Sonja I Berndt, Keri L Monda, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Michael Boehnke, Kari Stefansson, Kari E North, Mark I McCarthy, Joel N Hirschhorn, Erik Ingelsson and Ruth J F Loos: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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1. Metabolism Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
   Elizabeth K Speliotes, Sailaja Vedantam, Candace Guiducci, Brian Thomson & Joel N Hirschhorn
2. Division of Gastroenterology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
   Elizabeth K Speliotes & Lee M Kaplan
3. Department of Biostatistics, Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
   Cristen J Willer, Anne U Jackson, Heather M Stringham, Robert J Weyant, Ryan Welch, Laura J Scott, Elizabeth Jewell, Tanya M Teslovich, Gonçalo R Abecasis & Michael Boehnke
4. Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
   Sonja I Berndt, Ju-Hyun Park, Jianxin Shi, Stephen J Chanock & Nilanjan Chatterjee
5. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
   Keri L Monda & Kari E North
6. deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
   Gudmar Thorleifsson, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, G Bragi Walters, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir & Kari Stefansson
7. Genetics of Complex Traits, Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
   Hana Lango Allen, Michael N Weedon, Andrew R Wood, John R B Perry, Andrew T Hattersley & Timothy M Frayling
8. Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
   Cecilia M Lindgren, Reedik Mägi, Joshua C Randall, Teresa Ferreira, Inga Prokopenko, Anuj Goel, Andrew P Morris, Nigel W Rayner, Neil R Robertson, Hugh Watkins & Mark I McCarthy
9. Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
   Cecilia M Lindgren, Inga Prokopenko, Amanda J Bennett, Christopher J Groves, Neelam Hassanali, Matt J Neville, Nigel W Rayner, Neil R Robertson, Fredrik Karpe & Mark I McCarthy
10. Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
    Jian'an Luan, Tuomas O Kilpeläinen, Jing Hua Zhao, Shengxu Li, Ken K Ong, Manjinder S Sandhu, Nicholas J Wareham & Ruth J F Loos
11. Divisions of Genetics and Endocrinology and Program in Genomics, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Sailaja Vedantam & Joel N Hirschhorn
12. Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Regensburg University Medical Center, Regensburg, Germany
    Thomas W Winkler & Iris M Heid
13. Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Lu Qi, Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Frank B Hu & David J Hunter
14. Department of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Lu Qi, Frank B Hu & David J Hunter
15. Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
    Iris M Heid, Claudia Lamina, Elisabeth Thiering, Chih-Mei Chen, Christian Gieger, Harald Grallert, Peter Rzehak, Joachim Heinrich, Thomas Illig, Annette Peters & H-Erich Wichmann
16. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
    Eleanor Wheeler, Manjinder S Sandhu, Nicole Soranzo, Willem H Ouwehand, Panos Deloukas, Leena Peltonen & Inês Barroso
17. Center for Human Genetic Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Ayellet V Segrè, Sekar Kathiresan, Benjamin F Voight, Steven A McCarroll & Shaun Purcell
18. Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
    Ayellet V Segrè, James Nemesh, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Sekar Kathiresan, Benjamin F Voight & Steven A McCarroll
19. Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Ayellet V Segrè, Benjamin F Voight & Steven A McCarroll
20. Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center (MC), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Karol Estrada, Najaf Amin, Fernando Rivadeneira, Sophie van Wingerden, Albert Hofman, Joyce B J van Meurs, Jacqueline C Witteman, André Uitterlinden & Cornelia M van Duijn
21. Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Karol Estrada, Marjolein J Peters, Fernando Rivadeneira, Joyce B J van Meurs, André Uitterlinden & M Carola Zillikens
22. Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)-sponsored Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NCHA), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Karol Estrada, Marjolein J Peters, Fernando Rivadeneira, Albert Hofman, Joyce B J van Meurs, Jacqueline C Witteman, André Uitterlinden, M Carola Zillikens & Cornelia M van Duijn
23. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Liming Liang, Peter Kraft, Frank B Hu & David J Hunter
24. Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Liming Liang & Peter Kraft
25. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
    Stefan Gustafsson, Fredrik Wiklund, Henrik Grönberg, Per Hall & Erik Ingelsson
26. Queensland Statistical Genetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Queensland, Australia
    Jian Yang & Peter M Visscher
27. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR8199-IBL-Institut Pasteur de Lille, Lille, France
    Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Christine Cavalcanti-Proença, Stefan Gaget, Cecile Lecoeur, David Meyre, Vincent Vatin & Philippe Froguel
28. University Lille Nord de France, Lille, France
    Nabila Bouatia-Naji, Christine Cavalcanti-Proença, Stefan Gaget, Cecile Lecoeur, David Meyre, Vincent Vatin & Philippe Froguel
29. Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
    Tõnu Esko, Tõnu Esko, Helene Alavere, Mari Nelis, Mari-Liis Tammesoo & Andres Metspalu
30. Estonian Biocenter, Tartu, Estonia
    Tõnu Esko, Tõnu Esko, Mari Nelis, Maris Teder-Laving & Andres Metspalu
31. Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
    Tõnu Esko, Tõnu Esko, Mari Nelis, Maris Teder-Laving & Andres Metspalu
32. Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.,
    Mary F Feitosa, Shamika Ketkar, Qunyuan Zhang & Ingrid B Borecki
33. Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Zoltán Kutalik, Toby Johnson, Sven Bergmann, Diana Marek & Jacques S Beckmann
34. Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
    Zoltán Kutalik, Toby Johnson, Sven Bergmann & Diana Marek
35. Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
    Massimo Mangino, Nicole Soranzo & Timothy D Spector
36. Division of Rheumatology, Immunology and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Soumya Raychaudhuri
37. Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
    Andre Scherag & Tanja Boes
38. Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
    Albert Vernon Smith, Thor Aspelund, Gudny Eiriksdottir & Vilmundur Gudnason
39. University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
    Albert Vernon Smith, Thor Aspelund & Vilmundur Gudnason
40. Comprehensive Cancer Center East, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Katja K Aben & Lambertus A Kiemeney
41. Hudson Alpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama, USA
    Devin M Absher & Lindsay L Waite
42. Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath, UK
    Anna L Dixon
43. Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke, Nuthetal, Germany
    Eva Fisher & Heiner Boeing
44. Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Nicole L Glazer
45. Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Nicole L Glazer & David S Siscovick
46. University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia
    Michael E Goddard
47. Department of Primary Industries, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.,
    Michael E Goddard
48. Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Nancy L Heard-Costa & Larry D Atwood
49. Technical University Munich, Chair of Biomathematics, Garching, Germany
    Volker Hoesel
50. Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit (VU) University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Eco J C Geus, Gonneke Willemsen & Dorret I Boomsma
51. Department of Genetics and Pathology, Rudbeck Laboratory, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden
    Åsa Johansson, Wilmar Igl & Ulf Gyllensten
52. Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
    Åsa Johansson
53. Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK
    Toby Johnson
54. Clinical Pharmacology and Barts and The London Genome Centre, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London, UK
    Toby Johnson, Mark J Caulfield & Patricia B Munroe
55. Division of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Medical Genetics, Molecular and Clinical Pharmacology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
    Claudia Lamina
56. National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK
    Miriam F Moffatt
57. Department of Neurology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Richard H Myers
58. National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Narisu Narisu, Lori L Bonnycastle, Peter S Chines, Michael R Erdos, Mario A Morken, Amy J Swift & Francis S Collins
59. Institut für Medizinische Biometrie und Statistik, Universität zu Lübeck, Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
    Michael Preuss, Inke R König & Andreas Ziegler
60. Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Samuli Ripatti, Niina Pellikka, Johannes Kettunen, Markus Perola, Kaisa Silander, Ida Surakka, Elisabeth Widen, Jaakko Kaprio & Leena Peltonen
61. Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Unit of Public Health Genomics, Helsinki, Finland
    Samuli Ripatti, Niina Pellikka, Johannes Kettunen, Markus Perola, Kaisa Silander, Ida Surakka & Leena Peltonen
62. Hagedorn Research Institute, Gentofte, Denmark
    Camilla Sandholt, Anette P Gjesing, Torben Hansen & Oluf Pedersen
63. Department of Social Medicine, MRC Centre for Causal Analyses in Translational Epidemiology, Oakfield House, Bristol, UK
    Nicholas J Timpson, Ian N M Day, George Davey Smith & Debbie A Lawlor
64. Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
    Jonathan P Tyrer
65. Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Richard M Watanabe
66. Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Richard M Watanabe, Richard N Bergman & Thomas A Buchanan
67. Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Charles C White, Julius S Ngwa & L Adrienne Cupples
68. Department of Medicine, University of Milan, Surgery and Dentistry, Milano, Italy
    Christina Barlassina & Fabio Macciardi
69. Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Daniel I Chasman & Paul M Ridker
70. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Daniel I Chasman, Lee M Kaplan & Paul M Ridker
71. Centre for Genetic Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
    Matthew N Cooper, Robert W Lawrence, Jennie Hui & Lyle J Palmer
72. Department of Physiology, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
    John-Olov Jansson
73. Division of Nephrology and Dialysis, University Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
    Maria T S Alibrandi, Chiara Lanzani & Paolo Manunta
74. Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
    Peter Almgren & Leif C Groop
75. Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Alice M Arnold & Barbara McKnight
76. Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Alice M Arnold
77. INSERM Centre de recherche en Epidémiologie et Santé des Populations (CESP) Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Public Health U1018, Villejuif, France
    Beverley Balkau
78. University Paris Sud 11, Unité Mixte de Recherche en Santé (UMRS) 1018, Villejuif, France
    Beverley Balkau
79. Multidisciplinary Cardiovascular Research Centre (MCRC), Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics (LIGHT), University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
    Anthony J Balmforth & Alistair S Hall
80. Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
    Yoav Ben-Shlomo
81. Institute of Experimental Paediatric Endocrinology, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
    Heike Biebermann, Susanna Wiegand & Heiko Krude
82. Department of Genomics of Common Disease, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK
    Alexandra I F Blakemore & Philippe Froguel
83. Department of Medicine III, University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
    Stefan R Bornstein & Barbara Ludwig
84. Clinical Pharmacology Unit, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
    Morris J Brown
85. Division of Endocrinology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Thomas A Buchanan
86. Istituto di Neurogenetica e Neurofarmacologia del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Monserrato, Cagliari, Italy
    Fabio Busonero, Serena Sanna & Manuela Uda
87. Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Teviot Place, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
    Harry Campbell, Sarah H Wild, Igor Rudan & James F Wilson
88. University of Warwick, Warwick Medical School, Coventry, UK
    Francesco P Cappuccio
89. Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Yii-Der Ida Chen & Talin Haritunians
90. Clinical Trial Service Unit, Oxford, UK
    Robert Clarke
91. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
    Lachlan Coin, Paul Elliott, Ulla Sovio & Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
92. University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK
    John Connell
93. Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Martin den Heijer & Lambertus A Kiemeney
94. Department of Endocrinology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    Martin den Heijer
95. Northshore University Healthsystem, Evanston, Illinois, USA
    Jubao Duan, Pablo V Gejman & Alan R Sanders
96. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
    Shah Ebrahim
97. South Asia Network for Chronic Disease, New Dehli, India
    Shah Ebrahim
98. MRC-Health Protection Agency (HPA) Centre for Environment and Health, London, UK
    Paul Elliott
99. Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Genetics, Institut Municipal D'investigacio Medica and Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain
    Roberto Elosua
100. Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
     Johan G Eriksson
101. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
     Johan G Eriksson & Eero Kajantie
102. Helsinki University Central Hospital, Unit of General Practice, Helsinki, Finland
     Johan G Eriksson
103. Folkhalsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland
     Johan G Eriksson, Bo Isomaa & Tiinamaija Tuomi
104. Vasa Central Hospital, Vasa, Finland
     Johan G Eriksson
105. Institute of Genetic Medicine, European Academy Bozen-Bolzano (EURAC), Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, Affiliated Institute of the University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
     Maurizio F Facheris, Andrew A Hicks, Irene Pichler & Peter P Pramstaller
106. Department of Neurology, General Central Hospital, Bolzano, Italy
     Maurizio F Facheris & Peter P Pramstaller
107. Department of Internal Medicine B, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany
     Stephan B Felix
108. Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes and Obesity Unit, Ulm, Germany
     Pamela Fischer-Posovszky & Martin Wabitsch
109. Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
     Aaron R Folsom
110. Institut für Klinische Chemie und Laboratoriumsmedizin, Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
     Nele Friedrich, Sabine Schipf & Henri Wallaschofski
111. Center for Neurobehavioral Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA
     Nelson B Freimer
112. Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
     Mao Fu, Alan R Shuldiner & Jeffrey R O'Connell
113. Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, UK
     Anuj Goel & Hugh Watkins
114. Montreal Heart Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
     Philippe Goyette, Guillaume Lettre & Jean-Claude Tardif
115. Department of Medicine III, Pathobiochemistry, University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
     Jürgen Gräßler
116. Merck Research Laboratories, Merck and Co., Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, USA
     Danielle M Greenawalt
117. Department of Clinical Sciences, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
     Anna-Liisa Hartikainen & Anneli Pouta
118. Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Chronic Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Unit, Helsinki, Finland
     Aki S Havulinna, Pekka Jousilahti, Seppo Koskinen & Veikko Salomaa
119. MRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute for Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
     Caroline Hayward, Veronique Vitart & Alan F Wright
120. Department of Psychiatry and Midwest Alcoholism Research Center, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
     Andrew C Heath
121. Klinik und Poliklinik für Innere Medizin II, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
     Christian Hengstenberg
122. Regensburg University Medical Center, Innere Medizin II, Regensburg, Germany
     Christian Hengstenberg
123. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany
     Anke Hinney, Susann Scherag, Carla I G Vogel & Johannes Hebebrand
124. Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
     Georg Homuth
125. Department of Molecular Genetics, PathWest Laboratory of Western Australia, J Block, QEII Medical Centre, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
     Jennie Hui & John P Beilby
126. Busselton Population Medical Research Foundation Inc., Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
     Jennie Hui, John P Beilby, Alan L James & Lyle J Palmer
127. Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California, USA
     Carlos Iribarren
128. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
     Carlos Iribarren
129. Department of Social Services and Health Care, Jakobstad, Finland
     Bo Isomaa
130. Core Genotyping Facility, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., National Cancer Institute (NCI)-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA
     Kevin B Jacobs
131. Institute of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
     Ivonne Jarick
132. Institut für Epidemiologie und Sozialmedizin, Universität Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
     Ulrich John
133. Research Centre for Prevention and Health, Glostrup University Hospital, Glostrup, Denmark
     Torben Jørgensen
134. Faculty of Health Science, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
     Torben Jørgensen
135. Department of Chronic Disease Prevention, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Population Studies Unit, Turku, Finland
     Antti Jula
136. Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
     Marika Kaakinen & Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
137. Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
     Marika Kaakinen & Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
138. Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital and University of Helsinki, Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS), Helsinki, Finland
     Eero Kajantie
139. Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Weight Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
     Lee M Kaplan
140. Cardiovascular Research Center and Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
     Sekar Kathiresan
141. Framingham Heart Study of the National, Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Boston University, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
     Sekar Kathiresan & Christopher J O'Donnell
142. Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
     Sekar Kathiresan
143. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Diabetes Prevention Unit, Helsinki, Finland
     Leena Kinnunen, Jaakko Tuomilehto & Timo T Valle
144. Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
     Joshua W Knowles, Thomas Quertermous & Themistocles L Assimes
145. Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
     Ivana Kolcic, Ozren Polasek & Lina Zgaga
146. Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
     Peter Kovacs
147. Department of Medicine, University of Kuopio and Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland
     Johanna Kuusisto & Markku Laakso
148. Department of Public Health and General Practice, Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT) Research Centre, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Levanger, Norway
     Kirsti Kvaløy, Kristian Midthjell, Carl G P Platou & Kristian Hveem
149. Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Oulu, Finland
     Jaana Laitinen
150. Institut inter-regional pour la santé (IRSA), La Riche, France
     Olivier Lantieri
151. Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
     Lenore J Launer & Tamara B Harris
152. Department of Clinical Chemistry, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
     Terho Lehtimäki
153. Department of Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
     Guillaume Lettre & Jean-Claude Tardif
154. Human Genetics, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
     Jianjun Liu
155. Transplantation Laboratory, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
     Marja-Liisa Lokki
156. Department of Internal Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
     Mattias Lorentzon & Claes Ohlsson
157. Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Institute of Public Health, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
     Robert N Luben, Manjinder S Sandhu & Kay-Tee Khaw
158. Department of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Nutrition, Bichat-Claude Bernard University Hospital, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
     Michel Marre
159. Cardiovascular Genetics Research Unit, Université Henri Poincaré-Nancy 1, Nancy, France
     Michel Marre
160. Genetic Epidemiology Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Queensland, Australia
     Nicholas G Martin
161. Department of Social Medicine, Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
     Wendy L McArdle
162. Division of Health, Research Board, An Bord Taighde Sláinte, Dublin, Ireland
     Anne McCarthy
163. Institute of Human Genetics, Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München, Munich, Germany
     Thomas Meitinger
164. Institute of Human Genetics, Helmholtz Zentrum München-German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
     Thomas Meitinger
165. Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden
     Olle Melander & Martin Ridderstråle
166. Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Queensland, Australia
     Grant W Montgomery
167. Croatian Centre for Global Health, School of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
     Rosanda Mulic & Igor Rudan
168. Neurogenetics Laboratory, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Queensland, Australia
     Dale R Nyholt
169. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
     Christopher J O'Donnell
170. University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
     Stephen O'Rahilly & I Sadaf Farooqi
171. Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
     Ben Oostra
172. Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
     Guillaume Paré
173. Amgen, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
     Alex N Parker
174. Department of Public Health, Finnish Twin Cohort Study, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
     Kirsi H Pietiläinen & Jaakko Kaprio
175. Department of Psychiatry, Obesity Research Unit, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
     Kirsi H Pietiläinen & Aila Rissanen
176. Department of Medicine, Levanger Hospital, The Nord-Trøndelag Health Trust, Levanger, Norway
     Carl G P Platou
177. Gen-Info Ltd, Zagreb, Croatia
     Ozren Polasek
178. National Institute for Health and Welfare, Oulu, Finland
     Anneli Pouta & Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin
179. Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
     Suzanne Rafelt & Nilesh J Samani
180. Research Centre of Applied and Preventive Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
     Olli Raitakari
181. The Department of Clinical Physiology, Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
     Olli Raitakari
182. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Marburg, Marburg, Germany
     Winfried Rief
183. Department of Clinical Sciences and Clinical Chemistry, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
     Aimo Ruokonen
184. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Epidemiology, Munich, Germany,
     Peter Rzehak & H-Erich Wichmann
185. South Karelia Central Hospital, Lappeenranta, Finland
     Jouko Saramies
186. Department of Clinical Sciences and Internal Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
     Markku J Savolainen
187. Institut für Community Medicine, Greifswald, Germany
     Sabine Schipf
188. Institute for Clinical Molecular Biology and Department of Internal Medicine I, Christian-Albrechts-University, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
     Stefan Schreiber
189. Universität zu Lübeck, Medizinische Klinik II, Lübeck, Germany
     Heribert Schunkert & Jeanette Erdmann
190. Division of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Laboratory, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
     Juha Sinisalo & Markku S Nieminen
191. Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
     David S Siscovick
192. Department of Psychiatry, Instituut voor Extramuraal Geneeskundig Onderzoek (EMGO) Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
     Jan H Smit & Brenda W Penninx
193. Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
     Jonathan Stephens & Willem H Ouwehand
194. National Health Service (NHS) Blood and Transplant, Cambridge Centre, Cambridge, UK
     Jonathan Stephens & Willem H Ouwehand
195. Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Cardiovascular Disease, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK
     John R Thompson & Nilesh J Samani
196. Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, UK
     John R Thompson
197. Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
     Anke Tönjes & Michael Stumvoll
198. Coordination Centre for Clinical Trials, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
     Anke Tönjes
199. Department of Medicine, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
     Tiinamaija Tuomi
200. Research Program of Molecular Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
     Tiinamaija Tuomi
201. Department of Human Genetics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
     Gert-Jan van Ommen
202. Center of Medical Systems Biology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
     Gert-Jan van Ommen
203. Department of Medicine, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Turku, Finland
     Jorma Viikari
204. INSERM Cardiovascular Genetics team, Centre Investigation Clinique (CIC) 9501, Nancy, France
     Sophie Visvikis-Siest
205. Steno Diabetes Center, Gentofte, Denmark
     Daniel R Witte
206. Center for Human Genomics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
     Jianfeng Xu
207. Department of Physiatrics, Lapland Central Hospital, Rovaniemi, Finland
     Paavo Zitting
208. School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia, Australia
     John P Beilby
209. Department of Internal Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
     Heikki V Huikuri
210. School of Medicine and Pharmacology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
     Alan L James
211. Department of Clinical Physiology, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
     Mika Kähönen
212. Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
     Douglas F Levinson
213. Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine (UCI), Irvine, California, USA
     Fabio Macciardi
214. Leipziger Interdisziplinärer Forschungs-komplex zu molekularen Ursachen umwelt- und lebensstilassoziierter Erkrankungen (LIFE) Study Centre, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
     Michael Stumvoll
215. Service of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
     Jacques S Beckmann
216. Human Genetics Center and Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas, USA
     Eric Boerwinkle
217. Faculty of Health Science, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
     Torben Hansen
218. New York University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
     Richard B Hayes
219. Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Unit for Child and Adolescent Mental Health, Helsinki, Finland
     Jaakko Kaprio
220. NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK
     Fredrik Karpe & Mark I McCarthy
221. Department of Urology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
     Lambertus A Kiemeney
222. Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
     Oluf Pedersen
223. Faculty of Health Science, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
     Oluf Pedersen
224. Department of Psychiatry, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
     Brenda W Penninx
225. Department of Psychiatry, University Medical Centre Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
     Brenda W Penninx
226. Department of Neurology, University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
     Peter P Pramstaller
227. Institute for Paediatric Nutrition Medicine, Vestische Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Witten-Herdecke, Datteln, Germany
     Thomas Reinehr
228. Department of Medicine III, Prevention and Care of Diabetes, University of Dresden, Dresden, Germany
     Peter E H Schwarz
229. Geriatrics Research and Education Clinical Center, Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
     Alan R Shuldiner
230. Department of Public Health, Hjelt Institute, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
     Jaakko Tuomilehto
231. South Ostrobothnia Central Hospital, Seinajoki, Finland
     Jaakko Tuomilehto
232. Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
     Gérard Waeber
233. The Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
     Shaun Purcell & Leena Peltonen
234. Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
     Shaun Purcell
235. Pacific Biosciences, Menlo Park, California, USA
     Eric E Schadt
236. Sage Bionetworks, Seattle, Washington, USA
     Eric E Schadt
237. Division of Biostatistics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
     Ingrid B Borecki
238. Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
     Caroline S Fox
239. Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
     Robert C Kaplan
240. Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
     Karen L Mohlke
241. Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
     Leena Peltonen
242. Laboratory of Genetics, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
     David Schlessinger
243. Division of Community Health Sciences, St. George's, University of London, London, UK
     David P Strachan
244. Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany
     H-Erich Wichmann
245. Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland
     Unnur Thorsteinsdottir & Kari Stefansson
246. University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs, Institute of Metabolic Science Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
     Inês Barroso
247. Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
     Kari E North
248. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
     Joel N Hirschhorn

Authors

1. Elizabeth K Speliotes
2. Cristen J Willer
3. Sonja I Berndt
4. Keri L Monda
5. Gudmar Thorleifsson
6. Anne U Jackson
7. Hana Lango Allen
8. Cecilia M Lindgren
9. Jian'an Luan
10. Reedik Mägi
11. Joshua C Randall
12. Sailaja Vedantam
13. Thomas W Winkler
14. Lu Qi
15. Tsegaselassie Workalemahu
16. Iris M Heid
17. Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir
18. Heather M Stringham
19. Michael N Weedon
20. Eleanor Wheeler
21. Andrew R Wood
22. Teresa Ferreira
23. Robert J Weyant
24. Ayellet V Segrè
25. Karol Estrada
26. Liming Liang
27. James Nemesh
28. Ju-Hyun Park
29. Stefan Gustafsson
30. Tuomas O Kilpeläinen
31. Jian Yang
32. Nabila Bouatia-Naji
33. Tõnu Esko
34. Mary F Feitosa
35. Zoltán Kutalik
36. Massimo Mangino
37. Soumya Raychaudhuri
38. Andre Scherag
39. Albert Vernon Smith
40. Ryan Welch
41. Jing Hua Zhao
42. Katja K Aben
43. Devin M Absher
44. Najaf Amin
45. Anna L Dixon
46. Eva Fisher
47. Nicole L Glazer
48. Michael E Goddard
49. Nancy L Heard-Costa
50. Volker Hoesel
51. Jouke-Jan Hottenga
52. Åsa Johansson
53. Toby Johnson
54. Shamika Ketkar
55. Claudia Lamina
56. Shengxu Li
57. Miriam F Moffatt
58. Richard H Myers
59. Narisu Narisu
60. John R B Perry
61. Marjolein J Peters
62. Michael Preuss
63. Samuli Ripatti
64. Fernando Rivadeneira
65. Camilla Sandholt
66. Laura J Scott
67. Nicholas J Timpson
68. Jonathan P Tyrer
69. Sophie van Wingerden
70. Richard M Watanabe
71. Charles C White
72. Fredrik Wiklund
73. Christina Barlassina
74. Daniel I Chasman
75. Matthew N Cooper
76. John-Olov Jansson
77. Robert W Lawrence
78. Niina Pellikka
79. Inga Prokopenko
80. Jianxin Shi
81. Elisabeth Thiering
82. Helene Alavere
83. Maria T S Alibrandi
84. Peter Almgren
85. Alice M Arnold
86. Thor Aspelund
87. Larry D Atwood
88. Beverley Balkau
89. Anthony J Balmforth
90. Amanda J Bennett
91. Yoav Ben-Shlomo
92. Richard N Bergman
93. Sven Bergmann
94. Heike Biebermann
95. Alexandra I F Blakemore
96. Tanja Boes
97. Lori L Bonnycastle
98. Stefan R Bornstein
99. Morris J Brown
100. Thomas A Buchanan
101. Fabio Busonero
102. Harry Campbell
103. Francesco P Cappuccio
104. Christine Cavalcanti-Proença
105. Yii-Der Ida Chen
106. Chih-Mei Chen
107. Peter S Chines
108. Robert Clarke
109. Lachlan Coin
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Speliotes, E., Willer, C., Berndt, S. et al. Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index.Nat Genet 42, 937–948 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.686

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• Received: 13 May 2010
• Accepted: 15 September 2010
• Published: 10 October 2010
• Issue Date: November 2010
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.686