Table 1.

Obesity predisposing SNPs selected for the study

SNP	Gene		Described association		Reference
	name	abbreviation	odds ratio of obesity	mean difference in BMI (β)
rs1137101	leptin receptor	LEPR	1.13	–	Paracchini et al. [26]
rs2815752	neuronal growth regulator	NEGR1	–	0.13	Speliotes et al. [27]
rs2867125	transmembrane protein 18	TMEM18	–	0.31	Speliotes et al. [27]
rs6548238			–	0.26	Willer et al. [28]
rs1801282	peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma	PPARG	–	0.06	Galbete et al. [29]
rs2241766	adiponectin, C1Q and	ADIPOQ	1.39	–	Wu et al. [30]
rs1501299	collagen domain containing		0.89	–	Lu et al. [31]
rs10938397	glucosamine-6-phosphate deaminase 2	GNPDA2	–	0.18	Speliotes et al. [27]
rs16139	neuropeptide Y	NPY	–	0.58	Yeung et al. [32]
rs925946	brain-derived neurotrophic	BDNF	1.11	–	Thorleifsson et al. [33]
rs6265	factor		1.12	–	Thorleifsson et al. [33]
rs660339	uncoupling protein 2	UCP2	–	0.39	Brondani et al. [34]
rs659366	(mitochondrial, proton carrier)		1.06		Brondani et al. [34]
rs6499640	fat mass and obesity-	FTO	1.16	–	Thorleifsson et al. [33]
rs1558902	associated protein		–	0.39	Speliotes et al. [27]
rs1121980			–	0.31	Vimaleswaran et al. [35]
rs9939609			–	0.33	Willer et al. [28]
rs9941349			–	0.56	Cronin et al. [36]
rs17782313	melanocortin 4 receptor	MC4R	–	0.2	Willer et al. [28]
rs12970134			1.12	–	Thorleifsson et al. [30]