Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of adiposity
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Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of adiposity. / Oskari Kilpeläinen, Tuomas; Ingelsson, Erik.
The genetics of type 2 diabetes and related traits: Biology, physiology and translation. ed. / Jose C Florez. 1. ed. Switzerland : Springer, 2016. p. 91-109.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of adiposity
AU - Oskari Kilpeläinen, Tuomas
AU - Ingelsson, Erik
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Adiposity is strongly heritable and one of the leading risk factors for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and premature death. In the past 8 years, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have greatly increased our understanding of the genes and biological pathways that regulate adiposity by identifying more than 100 novel susceptibility loci for overall adiposity and more than 70 loci for body fat distribution. The results for overall adiposity highlight a significant neuronal component, whereas loci regulating body fat distribution demonstrate a central role for adipocyte biology and insulin resistance in the pathophysiology. The effect sizes of all identified loci are small, and even in aggregate, they explain <3 % of the variance in each adiposity trait. This and other evidence suggest that numerous new loci will be identified in extended meta-analyses in the future. The translation of the new discoveries into clinical care remains a major challenge. As the first step, further studies are required to establish the causal genes and variants and to disentangle the exact physiological mechanisms underlying each genotype-phenotype association
AB - Adiposity is strongly heritable and one of the leading risk factors for type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and premature death. In the past 8 years, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have greatly increased our understanding of the genes and biological pathways that regulate adiposity by identifying more than 100 novel susceptibility loci for overall adiposity and more than 70 loci for body fat distribution. The results for overall adiposity highlight a significant neuronal component, whereas loci regulating body fat distribution demonstrate a central role for adipocyte biology and insulin resistance in the pathophysiology. The effect sizes of all identified loci are small, and even in aggregate, they explain <3 % of the variance in each adiposity trait. This and other evidence suggest that numerous new loci will be identified in extended meta-analyses in the future. The translation of the new discoveries into clinical care remains a major challenge. As the first step, further studies are required to establish the causal genes and variants and to disentangle the exact physiological mechanisms underlying each genotype-phenotype association
UR - https://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319015736
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-01574-3_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-01574-3_4
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-3-319-01573-6
SP - 91
EP - 109
BT - The genetics of type 2 diabetes and related traits
A2 - Florez, Jose C
PB - Springer
CY - Switzerland
ER -
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