New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and 
cardiometabilic disease risk

Lu, Yingchang; Day, Felix R.; […], [...]; Loos, Ruth J. F.

doi:10.1038/ncomms10495

Item

ITEM ACTIONSEXPORT

Add to Basket

Local TagsRelease HistoryDetailsSummary

Released

Journal Article

New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabilic disease risk

MPS-Authors

[…], [...]
Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Max Planck Society;

External Resource

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms10495
(Publisher version)

Fulltext (restricted access)

There are currently no full texts shared for your IP range.

Fulltext (public)

There are no public fulltexts stored in PuRe

Supplementary Material (public)

There is no public supplementary material available

Citation

Lu, Y., Day, F. R., […], [., & Loos, R. J. F. (2016). New loci for body fat percentage reveal link between adiposity and cardiometabilic disease risk. Nature Communications, 7, 10495-10495. doi:10.1038/ncomms10495.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-002C-AFA0-C

Abstract

To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of adiposity and its links to cardiometabolic disease risk, we conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of body fat percentage (BF%) in up to 100,716 individuals. Twelve loci reached genome-wide significance (P<5 × 10⁻⁸), of which eight were previously associated with increased overall adiposity (BMI, BF%) and four (in or near COBLL1/GRB14, IGF2BP1, PLA2G6, CRTC1) were novel associations with BF%. Seven loci showed a larger effect on BF% than on BMI, suggestive of a primary association with adiposity, while five loci showed larger effects on BMI than on BF%, suggesting association with both fat and lean mass. In particular, the loci more strongly associated with BF% showed distinct cross-phenotype association signatures with a range of cardiometabolic traits revealing new insights in the link between adiposity and disease risk.