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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Obes Rev. 2015 Mar 5;16(4):327–340. doi: 10.1111/obr.12263

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Study design of the FTO–mortality meta-analysis. Eligible studies were identified by a literature search, as well as through network of the collaborators and calls in the international consortia GIANT and CHARGE (labelled ‘other sources’ in the figure). Of all studies that were invited, 34 studies of adults (n = 169,551) participated in the meta-analysis. Standardized Stata scripts were sent to each of the studies, 25 studies analysed data locally and nine studies were analysed centrally at the coordinating Data Hub. All the local estimates were meta-analysed.