Common genetic variation near MC4R is associated with waist circumference and insulin resistance (original) (raw)

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At Ealing Hospital and Imperial College, we thank J. Wrigley, S. Trainor and the team of research nurses for subject characterization and sample handling; and C. Hoggart, R. Walters, X. Li and P. Thomason (supported by Wellcome Trust grant 066786) for assistance with data analysis. The work was supported by the British Heart Foundation Grant SP/04/002.

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  1. John C Chambers and Paul Elliott: These authors contributed equally to this work.

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  1. Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Imperial College London, Norfolk Pl., W2 1PG, London, UK
    John C Chambers, Paul Elliott, Delilah Zabaneh, Weihua Zhang & David Balding
  2. Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 48109, Michigan, USA
    Yun Li
  3. Section of Genomic Medicine, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd., London, W12 0NN, UK
    Philippe Froguel
  4. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 8090-Institute of Biology, Pasteur Institute, Lille, France
    Philippe Froguel
  5. National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London Hammersmith Hospital, Du Cane Rd., London, W12 0NN, UK
    James Scott & Jaspal S Kooner

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J.C.C., P.E., D.Z., D.B., J.S., P.F. and J.S.K. designed the study. J.C.C., P.E. and J.S.K. supervised recruitment of study subjects. D.Z., J.C.C., P.E., J.S. and J.S.K. supervised the experiments. J.C.C., D.Z., W.Z., Y.L. and D.B. performed data analysis. J.C.C., P.E., J.S. and J.S.K. wrote the manuscript. All authors commented on and approved the manuscript.

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Chambers, J., Elliott, P., Zabaneh, D. et al. Common genetic variation near MC4R is associated with waist circumference and insulin resistance.Nat Genet 40, 716–718 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.156

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