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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Feb 14.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2017 Feb 14;317(6):626–634. doi: 10.1001/jama.2016.21042

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Study design. Shown are variants in the primary instrument used to estimate the association of waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index with cardiometabolic quantitative traits, type 2 diabetes, and coronary heart disease; sources of data for analysis including UK Biobank and publicly-available genome-wide association studies. Abbreviations: WHRadjBMI, waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for body mass index; BMI, body mass index; SNP; single nucleotide polymorphism; CARDIOGRAMplusC4D, Coronary ARtery DIsease Genome-wide Replication and Meta-analysis plus The Coronary Artery Disease Genetics consortium19; DIAGRAM, DIAbetes Genetics Replication And Meta-analysis17; GIANT, Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits13,14; GLGC, Global Lipids Genetics Consortium11; MAGIC, Meta-Analyses of Glucose and Insulin-related traits Consortium12; CKDGen, Chronic Kidney Disease Genetics Consortium15.