Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity

Ruth J. F. Loos, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Shengxu Li, Eleanor Wheeler, Jing Hua Zhao, Inga Prokopenko, Michael Inouye, Rachel M. Freathy, Antony Attwood, J. Beckmann, Sonja I Berndt, Sven Bergmann, Amanda J. Bennett, Sheila Bingham, Murielle Bochud, Matthew A. Brown, Stéphane Cauchi, John Connell, Cyrus Cooper, George Davey Smith, Ian N.M. Day, Christian Dina, Subhajyoti De, Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, Alex S. F. Doney, Katherine S. Elliott, Paul Elliott, David M. Evans, I. Sadaf Farooqi, Philippe Froguel, Jilur Ghori, Christopher J. Groves, Rhian Gwilliam, David Hadley, Alistair S. Hall, Andrew T. Hattersley, Johannes Hebebrand, Iris M. Heid, Blanca Herrera, Anke Hinney, Sarah Hunt, Paul M Ridker, Toby Johnson, Jennifer D M Jolley, Fredrik Karpe, Andrew Keniry, Kay-Tee Khaw, Robert Luben, Massimo Mangino, Jonathan Marchini, Wendy L. McArdle, Ralph McGinnis, Stephen Eyre, Patricia B. Munroe, Andrew D Morris, Andy Ness, Matthew Neville, Alexandra C. Nica, Ken K. Ong, Stephen O’Rahilly, Katharine R. Owen, Nicholette D. Palmer, Konstantinos A. Papadakis, Simon Potter, Anneli Pouta, Lu Qi, Joshua C. Randall, Nigel W. Rayner, Susan M. Ring, Manjinder S. Sandhu, André Scherag, Matthew Sims, Kijoung Song, Nicole Soranzo, Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Holly Syddall, Sarah A. Teichmann, Nicholas J. Timpson, Jonathan H. Tobias, Manuela Uda, Carla Ivane Ganz Vogel, Chris Wallace, Dawn Waterworth, Michael N. Weedon, Cristen J. Willer, Vicki Wraight, Xin Yuan, Eleftheria Zeggini, Joel N. Hirschhorn, David P. Strachan, Willem H. Ouwehand, Mark J. Caulfield, Nilesh J. Samani, Timothy M. Frayling, Péter Vollenweider, Gérard Waeber, Vincent Mooser, Panos Deloukas, Mark I. McCarthy, Nicholas J. Wareham (2008). Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity. , 40(6), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.140.