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Published in final edited form as: Nat Genet. 2008 May 4;40(6):768–775. doi: 10.1038/ng.140

Table 1. Association between rs17782313 and BMI in populations with genome-wide association data andin replication populations.

MAF (%) T/T C/T C/C

n Mean BMIa
(95% CI)
Mean BMIa
(95% CI)
Mean BMIa
(95% CI)
P b
GWA population-based studies
EPIC-Obesity study 2,416 24 26.0
(25.9–26.2)
26.3
(26.1–26.5)
26.5
(26.0–27.1)
0.029
CoLaus 5,631 24 25.4
(25.3–25.6)
25.6
(25.4–25.8)
25.8
(25.3–26.3)
0.016
British 1958 Birth Cohort 1,479 23 26.9
(26.6–27.2)
27.2
(26.8–27.6)
28.0
(26.8–29.2)
0.017
WTCCC/UK Blood Services 1 1,456 24 25.7
(25.5–26.0)
26.1
(25.7–26.4)
26.3
(25.4–27.1)
0.08
Replication population-based studies
EPIC-Norfolk 15,834 23 26.0
(25.9–26.0)
26.1
(26.0–26.2)
26.3
(26.1–26.5)
0.0006
MRC-Ely 1,696 25 26.8
(26.6–27.1)
26.9
(26.7–27.3)
26.6
(25.8–27.4)
0.95
Northern Finnish Birth Cohort of 1966 4,830 18 24.3
(24.2–24.5)
24.5
(24.3–24.7)
24.9
(24.2–25.5)
0.034
Oxford Biobank 1,165 24 25.6
(25.3–25.9)
26.0
(25.6–26.4)
26.7
(25.7–27.7)
0.018
UK Blood Services 2 1,562 24 25.9
(25.6–26.1)
25.9
(25.6–26.2)
26.4
(25.6–27.3)
0.34
ALSPAC Mothers 6,264 24 22.7
(22.6–22.8)
22.7
(22.6–22.9)
22.9
(22.6–23.3)
0.19
Hertfordshire study 2,842 24 26.9
(26.7–27.1)
27.3
(27.1–27.5)
27.2
(26.6–27.8)
0.03
SardiNIA 1,412 12 24.5
(24.2–24.9)
24.7
(24.1–25.3)
23.4
(21.7–25.2)
0.11
KORA 1,642 26 26.9
(26.6–27.1)
27.2
(26.9–27.5)
27.6
(26.9–28.3)
0.02
NHS 2,265 24 24.6
(24.4–24.8)
25.1
(24.8–25.4)
24.1
(23.5–24.8)
0.24
PLCO 2,238 24 27.2
(27.0–27.4)
27.2
(27.0–27.5)
28.0
(27.3–28.7)
0.11
Dundee controls 1 1,913 22 26.2
(26.0–26.5)
26.4
(26.1–26.7)
27.0
(26.1–27.9)
0.11
Dundee controls 2 1,501 22 26.5
(26.2–26.8)
26.8
(26.4–27.2)
26.5
(25.6–27.5)
0.35
EFSOCH 1,639 23 24.6
(24.3–24.8)
25.3
(24.9–25.6)
25.9
(25.0–26.8)
0.00004
DGI controls 1,503 22 26.3
(26.1–26.6)
26.6
(26.3–26.9)
26.3
(25.5–27.2)
0.35
FUSION controls 1,291 19 26.8
(26.5–27.0)
26.8
(26.4–27.2)
26.4
(25.5–27.3)
0.58
Meta-analyses of population-based studies (I2 = 2.5%, P for heterogeneity = 0.43) 1.6 × 10−15
GWA case series
WTCCC/T2D cases 1,923 26 30.6
(30.3–31.0)
30.7
(30.3–31.1)
30.8
(29.9–31.8)
0.69
WTCCC/CAD cases 1,974 25 27.3
(27.1–27.6)
27.2
(26.9–27.5)
27.7
(27.0–28.5)
0.76
WTCCC/HT cases 1,947 23 27.0
(26.8–27.2)
27.6
(27.3–27.9)
27.5
(26.8–28.3)
0.004
Replication case series
Dundee cases 1 1,909 24 30.9
(30.6–31.3)
30.9
(30.5–31.3)
31.7
(30.6–32.8)
0.68
Dundee cases 2 1,067 24 31.0
(30.6–31.5)
31.5
(30.9–32.1)
31.3
(29.9–32.7)
0.29
YT2D–OXGN cases 617 25 31.4
(30.7–32.1)
31.7
(30.9–32.5)
31.4
(29.3–33.6)
0.71
DGI cases 1,543 23 28.3
(28.0–28.6)
28.0
(27.7–28.4)
28.0
(27.1–29.0)
0.26
FUSION cases 1,094 18 29.8
(29.4–30.1)
30.1
(29.6–30.6)
29.0
(27.4–30.7)
0.86
Meta-analyses of case series (I2 = 20%, P for heterogeneity = 0.27) 0.11
Meta-analyses of all studies (I2 = 15%, P for heterogeneity = 0.24) 2.8 × 10−15
a

BMI is presented as geometric means and log-inverse 95% confidence intervals.

b

P values represent significance of the additive model (per-allele effect) with standardized log10-transformed BMI, adjusted for age.