A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry (original) (raw)

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1. Larry Atwood, Robert C Millikan and Ruth J F Loos: Deceased.
2. Keri L Monda, Gary K Chen, Kira C Taylor, Cameron Palmer and Todd L Edwards: These authors contributed equally to this work.
3. Kari E North and Christopher A Haiman: These authors jointly directed this work.

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1. The Center for Observational Research, Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, California, USA
   Keri L Monda
2. Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
   Keri L Monda, Kira C Taylor, Mariaelisa Graff & Kari E North
3. Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
   Gary K Chen, Suhn K Rhie, Graham Casey, Gerhard A Coetzee, Ye Feng, Kristine R Monroe, David J Van Den Berg, Sue A Ingles, Brian E Henderson & Christopher A Haiman
4. Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
   Kira C Taylor
5. Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
   Cameron Palmer & Joel N Hirschhorn
6. Division of Genetics, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
   Cameron Palmer & Joel N Hirschhorn
7. Division of Endocrinology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
   Cameron Palmer & Joel N Hirschhorn
8. Department of Medicine, Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
   Todd L Edwards
9. Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
   Leslie A Lange
10. Center for Diabetes Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Maggie C Y Ng, Nicholette D Palmer, Daniel A Shriner, Jie Zhou & Donald W Bowden
11. Center for Genomics and Personalized Medicine Research, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Maggie C Y Ng, Timothy D Howard, Nicholette D Palmer & Donald W Bowden
12. Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health, National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Adebowale A Adeyemo, Guanjie Chen & Charles N Rotimi
13. Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, California, USA
    Matthew A Allison
14. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
    Lawrence F Bielak
15. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
    Marguerite R Irvin, Virginia J Howard & Donna K Arnett
16. Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Suhn K Rhie, Graham Casey, Gerhard A Coetzee, David J Van Den Berg, Brian E Henderson & Christopher A Haiman
17. Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Guo Li, David Siscovick, Barbara McKnight & Bruce M Psaty
18. Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
    Yongmei Liu
19. Thurston Arthritis Research Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
    Youfang Liu & Joanne M Jordan
20. The Charles Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
    Yingchang Lu, Omri Gottesman, Vaneet Lotay, Rajiv Nadukuru, Thomas W Winkler, Erwin P Bottinger & Ruth J F Loos
21. Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute on Aging (NIA), NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Michael A Nalls, Angela Britton, Dena G Hernandez & Andrew B Singleton
22. Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    Yan V Sun
23. Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
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24. Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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26. The Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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27. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
    Melinda C Aldrich
28. Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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29. Department of Epidemiology, Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
    Christopher I Amos, Xifeng Wu & Sara S Strom
30. Department of Family and Community Medicine, Geissel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
    Christopher I Amos
31. The Cancer Institute of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
    Elisa V Bandera
32. Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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33. Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genomic Pediatrics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
    Ulrich Broeckel
34. Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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35. Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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37. Department of Public Health Sciences, Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
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38. Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Yii-Der I Chen, Xiuqing Guo & Talin Haritunians
39. Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Charleston W K Chiang & Joel N Hirschhorn
40. Department of Urology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Gerhard A Coetzee
41. Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota School of Public Health, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
    Ellen Demerath & Pamela J Schreiner
42. Epidemiology Research Program, American Cancer Society, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
    Ryan W Driver & Michael J Thun
43. South Central VA Mental Illness, Research and Clinical Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
    Patricia Dubbert
44. VA Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
    Patricia Dubbert
45. Division of Health Services Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA
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46. Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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47. Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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48. Laboratory of Epidemiology and Population Science, NIA, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    Tamara Harris
49. Laboratory of Human Carcinogenesis, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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50. Department of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA
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51. Chronic Disease Research Centre, University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados
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52. Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of the West Indies, Bridgetown, Barbados
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53. Ministry of Health, Bridgetown, Barbados
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54. Department of Health Disparities Research, Division of the Office of the Vice President (OVP), Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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57. Georgetown-Howard Universities Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, Washington, DC, USA
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58. Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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59. Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Henri Begleiter Neurodynamics Laboratory, State University of New York Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA
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60. Institute of Translational Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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61. Department of Epidemiology, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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62. Department of Medicine, Sickle Cell Center, Georgia Health Sciences University, Augusta, Georgia, USA
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63. Department of Biostatistical Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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64. Montreal Heart Institute, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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65. Division of Genetics, Program in Genomics and Endocrinology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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70. Center for Population and Reproductive Health, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
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71. Department of Urology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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72. Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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73. Department of Public Health Sciences, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Michigan, USA
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74. Cancer Prevention Program, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
    Marian Neuhouser
75. Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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76. Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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77. Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
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78. Department of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria
    Adesola Ogunniyi & Babatunde Salako
79. Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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80. Slone Epidemiology Center at Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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81. Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
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83. Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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84. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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85. Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
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86. Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
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88. Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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89. Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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90. Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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91. Center for Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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92. Division of Gastroenterology. Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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93. The Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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94. Dan L. Duncan Cancer Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
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95. Department of Cancer Prevention and Control, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA
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96. Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi, USA
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97. Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, Illinois, USA
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98. Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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99. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt Epidemiology Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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100. Core Genotype Facility, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., NCI-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, USA
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102. Department of Neurological Surgery, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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103. Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
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104. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
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105. Department of Medicine, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, USA
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106. Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK
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107. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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108. Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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109. College of Nursing, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
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110. Framingham Heart Study, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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111. Division of Cancer Etiology, Department of Population Science, Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope, Duarte, California, USA
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112. International Epidemiology Institute, Rockville, Maryland, USA
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113. Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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114. Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA
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115. Health Disparities Research Section, Laboratory of Population Science, NIA, NIH, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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116. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
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117. NHLBI Center for Population Studies, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
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118. Division of Endocrinology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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119. Department of Nutrition Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham and the Birmingham VA Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
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120. The Center for Applied Genomics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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128. Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
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129. Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) Statistical Center, Seattle, Washington, USA
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130. Glickman Urologic and Kidney Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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132. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
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     Susan Redline
141. Center for Public Health Genomics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
     Michèle M Sale
142. Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
     Michèle M Sale
143. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
     Michèle M Sale
144. Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
     Lisa B Signorello
145. Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences, The Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
     Jason H Moore & Scott M Williams
146. Department of Genetics, The Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
     Jason H Moore & Scott M Williams
147. Department of Community and Family Medicine, The Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth College, Lebanon, New Hampshire, USA
     Jason H Moore
148. Division of Biology and Biomedical Sciences, Human and Statistical Genetics Program, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
     Shamika Ketkar
149. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
     Xiaofeng Zhu
150. Behavioral Epidemiology Section, Laboratory of Population Science, NIA, NIH, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
     Alan B Zonderman
151. Division of Prevention and Population Sciences, NHLBI, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
     George J Papanicolaou
152. The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
     Ruth J F Loos
153. The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
     Ruth J F Loos

Authors

1. Keri L Monda
2. Gary K Chen
3. Kira C Taylor
4. Cameron Palmer
5. Todd L Edwards
6. Leslie A Lange
7. Maggie C Y Ng
8. Adebowale A Adeyemo
9. Matthew A Allison
10. Lawrence F Bielak
11. Guanjie Chen
12. Mariaelisa Graff
13. Marguerite R Irvin
14. Suhn K Rhie
15. Guo Li
16. Yongmei Liu
17. Youfang Liu
18. Yingchang Lu
19. Michael A Nalls
20. Yan V Sun
21. Mary K Wojczynski
22. Lisa R Yanek
23. Melinda C Aldrich
24. Adeyinka Ademola
25. Christopher I Amos
26. Elisa V Bandera
27. Cathryn H Bock
28. Angela Britton
29. Ulrich Broeckel
30. Quiyin Cai
31. Neil E Caporaso
32. Chris S Carlson
33. John Carpten
34. Graham Casey
35. Wei-Min Chen
36. Fang Chen
37. Yii-Der I Chen
38. Charleston W K Chiang
39. Gerhard A Coetzee
40. Ellen Demerath
41. Sandra L Deming-Halverson
42. Ryan W Driver
43. Patricia Dubbert
44. Mary F Feitosa
45. Ye Feng
46. Barry I Freedman
47. Elizabeth M Gillanders
48. Omri Gottesman
49. Xiuqing Guo
50. Talin Haritunians
51. Tamara Harris
52. Curtis C Harris
53. Anselm J M Hennis
54. Dena G Hernandez
55. Lorna H McNeill
56. Timothy D Howard
57. Barbara V Howard
58. Virginia J Howard
59. Karen C Johnson
60. Sun J Kang
61. Brendan J Keating
62. Suzanne Kolb
63. Lewis H Kuller
64. Abdullah Kutlar
65. Carl D Langefeld
66. Guillaume Lettre
67. Kurt Lohman
68. Vaneet Lotay
69. Helen Lyon
70. JoAnn E Manson
71. William Maixner
72. Yan A Meng
73. Kristine R Monroe
74. Imran Morhason-Bello
75. Adam B Murphy
76. Josyf C Mychaleckyj
77. Rajiv Nadukuru
78. Katherine L Nathanson
79. Uma Nayak
80. Amidou N'Diaye
81. Barbara Nemesure
82. Suh-Yuh Wu
83. M Cristina Leske
84. Christine Neslund-Dudas
85. Marian Neuhouser
86. Sarah Nyante
87. Heather Ochs-Balcom
88. Adesola Ogunniyi
89. Temidayo O Ogundiran
90. Oladosu Ojengbede
91. Olufunmilayo I Olopade
92. Julie R Palmer
93. Edward A Ruiz-Narvaez
94. Nicholette D Palmer
95. Michael F Press
96. Evandine Rampersaud
97. Laura J Rasmussen-Torvik
98. Jorge L Rodriguez-Gil
99. Babatunde Salako
100. Eric E Schadt
101. Ann G Schwartz
102. Daniel A Shriner
103. David Siscovick
104. Shad B Smith
105. Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller
106. Elizabeth K Speliotes
107. Margaret R Spitz
108. Lara Sucheston
109. Herman Taylor
110. Bamidele O Tayo
111. Margaret A Tucker
112. David J Van Den Berg
113. Digna R Velez Edwards
114. Zhaoming Wang
115. John K Wiencke
116. Thomas W Winkler
117. John S Witte
118. Margaret Wrensch
119. Xifeng Wu
120. James J Yang
121. Albert M Levin
122. Taylor R Young
123. Neil A Zakai
124. Mary Cushman
125. Krista A Zanetti
126. Jing Hua Zhao
127. Wei Zhao
128. Yonglan Zheng
129. Jie Zhou
130. Regina G Ziegler
131. Joseph M Zmuda
132. Jyotika K Fernandes
133. Gary S Gilkeson
134. Diane L Kamen
135. Kelly J Hunt
136. Ida J Spruill
137. Christine B Ambrosone
138. Stefan Ambs
139. Donna K Arnett
140. Larry Atwood
141. Diane M Becker
142. Sonja I Berndt
143. Leslie Bernstein
144. William J Blot
145. Ingrid B Borecki
146. Erwin P Bottinger
147. Donald W Bowden
148. Gregory Burke
149. Stephen J Chanock
150. Richard S Cooper
151. Jingzhong Ding
152. David Duggan
153. Michele K Evans
154. Caroline Fox
155. W Timothy Garvey
156. Jonathan P Bradfield
157. Hakon Hakonarson
158. Struan F A Grant
159. Ann Hsing
160. Lisa Chu
161. Jennifer J Hu
162. Dezheng Huo
163. Sue A Ingles
164. Esther M John
165. Joanne M Jordan
166. Edmond K Kabagambe
167. Sharon L R Kardia
168. Rick A Kittles
169. Phyllis J Goodman
170. Eric A Klein
171. Laurence N Kolonel
172. Loic Le Marchand
173. Simin Liu
174. Barbara McKnight
175. Robert C Millikan
176. Thomas H Mosley
177. Badri Padhukasahasram
178. L Keoki Williams
179. Sanjay R Patel
180. Ulrike Peters
181. Curtis A Pettaway
182. Patricia A Peyser
183. Bruce M Psaty
184. Susan Redline
185. Charles N Rotimi
186. Benjamin A Rybicki
187. Michèle M Sale
188. Pamela J Schreiner
189. Lisa B Signorello
190. Andrew B Singleton
191. Janet L Stanford
192. Sara S Strom
193. Michael J Thun
194. Mara Vitolins
195. Wei Zheng
196. Jason H Moore
197. Scott M Williams
198. Shamika Ketkar
199. Xiaofeng Zhu
200. Alan B Zonderman
201. Charles Kooperberg
202. George J Papanicolaou
203. Brian E Henderson
204. Alex P Reiner
205. Joel N Hirschhorn
206. Ruth J F Loos
207. Kari E North
208. Christopher A Haiman

Consortia

NABEC Consortium

UKBEC Consortium

BioBank Japan Project

AGEN Consortium

Contributions

Design and/or management of the individual studies: A.A., A.A.A., C.B.A., C.I.A., D.K.A., L.A., M.C.A., M.A.A., S.A., C.H.B., D.M.B., D.W.B., E.P.B., E.V.B., G.B., I.B.B., J.P.B., L.B., S.I.B., W.J.B., C.S.C., G. Casey, G.K.C., J.C., L.C., M.C., N.E.C., Q.C., R.S.C., S.J.C., J.D., P.D., R.W.D., S.L.D.-H., M.K.E., T.L.E., C.F., J.K.F., E.M.G., P.J.G., S.F.A.G., A.H., A.J.M.H., B.E.H., B.V.H., C.A.H., C.C.H., D.H., H.H., K.J.H., J.J.H., J.N.H., V.J.H., S.A.I., E.M.J., J.M.J., C.K., D.L.K., E.A.K., E.K.K., L.N.K., L.H.K., R.A.K., S.J.K., S. Kolb, L.L.M., A.M.L., R.J.F.L., S.L., Yongmei Liu, A.B.M., B.M., K.R.M., R.C.M., T.H.M., J.H.M., J.C.M., I.M.-B., K.E.N., M.C.Y.N., S.N., C.N.-D., U.N., B.N., K.L.N., T.O.O., O.O., O.I.O., B.P., U.P., B.M.P., C.A.P., G.J.P., J.R.P., M.F.P., P.A.P., S.R.P., E.A.R.-N., B.A.R., C.N.R., S.R., J.L.R.-G., A.B.S., A.G.S., J.L.S., L.B.S., P.J.S., S.B.S., S.W.-S., M.R.S., M.M.S., I.J.S., S.S.S., H.T., M.J.T., M.A.T., M.V., J.S.W., X.W., J.K.W., S.M.W., L.K.W., M.W., J.J.Y., N.A.Z., R.G.Z., W. Zheng, A.B.Z., K.A.Z., Y.Z. and X.Z.

Genotyping: A.B., U.B., S.J.C., Y.-D.I.C., D.D., T.L.E., S.F.A.G., X.G., D.G.H., J.N.H., T.D.H., T. Haritunians, K.C.J., Yongmei Liu, Y. Lu, W.M., R.N., J.R.P., N.D.P., S.B.S. and D.J.V.D.B.

Phenotyping: A.A.A., D.K.A., M.A.A., E.P.B., R.S.C., E.D., B.I.F., O.G., S.F.A.G., J.N.H., T. Haritunians, K.C.J., A.K., C.K., E.K.K., S.L., J.E.M., M.N., R.N., A.O., H.O.-B., B.M.P., J.R.P., S.R.P., C.N.R., E.R., S.R., B.S., D.S., L.S., B.O.T. and T.R.Y.

Statistical methods and data analysis: A.A.A., D.K.A., L.F.B., C.W.K.C., G.K.C., G. Casey, N.E.C., W.-M.C., G.A.C., Y.-D.I.C., J.D., P.D., T.L.E., C.F., M.F.F., J.P.B., E.M.G., M.G., O.G., X.G., C.A.H., M.R.I., A.K., B.J.K., C.K., E.K.K., S.J.K., C.D.L., G. Lettre, G. Li, H.L., K.L., L.A.L., R.J.F.L., V.L., Yongmei Liu, Youfang Liu, Y. Lu, B.M., K.L.M., Y.A.M., A.N., K.E.N., M.A.N., M.C.Y.N., C.P., J.R.P., E.A.R.-N., S.K.R., B.P., A.P.R., L.J.R.-T., D.A.S., E.K.S., E.E.S., Y.V.S., B.O.T., K.C.T., D.R.V.E., M.K.W., Z.W., L.K.W., T.W.W., L.R.Y., J.Z., J.H.Z., N.A.Z., J.M.Z., W. Zhao, the NABEC Consortium, the UKBEC Consortium, the BioBank Japan Project and the AGEN Consortium.

Writing group: G.K.C., T.L.E., M.G., B.E.H., J.N.H., R.J.F.L., C.A.H., L.A.L., K.L.M., K.E.N., M.C.Y.N., C.P., G.J.P., A.P.R. and K.C.T.

Critical review of the manuscript: A.A.A., A.A., C.B.A., C.I.A., D.K.A., L.A., M.A.A., M.C.A., S.A., A.B., C.H.B., D.M.B., D.W.B., E.P.B., E.V.B., G.B., I.B.B., J.P.B., L.F.B., L.B., S.I.B., U.B., W.J.B., C.W.K.C., C.S.C., F.C., G.A.C., G.K.C., G. Casey, G. Chen, J.C., L.C., M.C., N.E.C., Q.C., R.S.C., S.J.C., W.-M.C., Y.-D.I.C., D.D., E.D., J.D., P.D., R.W.D., S.L.D.-H., M.K.E., T.L.E., C.F., J.K.F., M.F.F., B.I.F., Y.F., E.M.G., G.S.G., M.G., O.G., P.J.G., S.F.A.G., W.T.G., X.G., A.J.M.H., A.H., B.E.H., B.V.H., C.A.H., C.C.H., D.G.H., D.H., H.H., J.J.H., J.N.H., K.J.H., T.D.H., T. Haritunians, T. Harris, V.J.H., J.H.M., M.R.I., S.A.I., E.M.J., J.M.J., K.C.J., A.K., B.J.K., C.K., D.L.K., E.A.K., E.K.K., L.N.K., L.H.K., R.A.K., S.J.K., S.L.R.K., S. Kolb, S. Ketkar, A.M.L., C.D.L., G. Lettre, G. Li, H.L., K.L., L.A.L., L.L., M.C.L., R.J.F.L., S.L., V.L., Yongmei Liu, Youfang Liu, Y. Lu, A.B.M., B.M., J.C.M., J.E.M., L.H.M., K.L.M., K.R.M., R.C.M., T.H.M., W.M., Y.A.M., I.M.-B., A.N., B.N., K.E.N., K.L.N., M.A.N., M.C.Y.N., M.N., R.N., S.N., U.N., C.N.-D., O.I.O., O.O., T.O.O., A.O., H.O.-B., B.M.P., B.P., C.A.P., C.P., G.J.P., J.R.P., M.F.P., N.D.P., P.A.P., S.R.P., U.P., A.P.R., B.A.R., C.N.R., E.R., S.K.R., S.R., J.L.R.-G., E.A.R.-N., L.J.R.-T., A.B.S., A.G.S., B.S., D.A.S., D.S., E.K.S., E.E.S., I.J.S., J.L.S., L.B.S., L.S., M.M.S., M.R.S., P.J.S., S.B.S., S.S.S., Y.V.S., B.O.T., K.C.T., M.A.T., H.T., M.J.T., M.V., D.J.V.D.B., D.R.V.E., J.K.W., M.W., S.M.W., S.-Y.W., S.W.-S., T.W.W., X.W., Z.W., L.K.W., J.S.W., M.K.W., J.J.Y., L.R.Y., T.R.Y., A.B.Z., J.Z., J.M.Z., J.H.Z., K.A.Z., N.A.Z., R.G.Z., W. Zhao, W Zheng, X.Z. and Y.Z.

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Monda, K., Chen, G., Taylor, K. et al. A meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with body mass index in individuals of African ancestry.Nat Genet 45, 690–696 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2608

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• Received: 05 September 2012
• Accepted: 18 March 2013
• Published: 14 April 2013
• Issue date: June 2013
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.2608