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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 22.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Genet. 2017 Dec 22;50(1):26–41. doi: 10.1038/s41588-017-0011-x

Table 2.

Genes significantly associated with BMI in a gene-based meta-analyses, aggregating R/LF coding SNVs

Gene Location longest coding
transcript
Testd N
variants
P-value Conditioned P-
valuea
Single variant

Top variant P-value
All-ancestries sex-combined
SLC6A17 chr1:110693132–110744823 SKAT 13 2.73E-07 0.13 rs41313405 4.45E-07
RAPGEF3 chr12:48128453–48152889 SKAT 19 8.91E-15 0.20 rs145878042 5.16E-14
PRKAG1 chr12:49396055–49412629 SKAT 4 2.75E-12 0.53 rs1126930 2.63E-12
RAB21 chr12:72148643–72187256 SKAT 5 4.81E-08 0.27 rs61754230 4.96E-08
KSR2 chr12:117890817–118406028 SKAT 7 7.15E-09 0.19 rs56214831 4.59E-08
MAP1A chr15:43809806–43823818 SKAT 25 9.42E-07 0.16 rs55707100 1.01E-06
MC4R chr18:58038564–58040001 VT 4 3.72E-09 0.01 rs13447325 2.97E-11
GIPR chr19:46171502–46186982 VT 10 8.24E-09 1.12E-04 rs143430880 5.76E-06
All-ancestries sex-specific
ALDH3A1 (men only) chr17:19641298–19651746 SKAT 15 3.24E-07 0.003 rs142078447 8.62E-06
ZFR2 (women only) chr19:3804022–3869027 SKAT 19 1.81E-07 0.82 rs45465594 3.64E-07
European sex-combined
ACHE chr7:100487615–100493592 SKAT 6 3.30E-10 0.12 rs386545548 7.22E-10
European sex-specific
ANGPTL7 (men only) chr1:11249346–11256038 VT 3 2.50E-06 0.008 rs202182115 2.56E-05
ZNF169 (women only) chr9:97021548–97064111 SKAT 9 1.89E-07 0.24 rs12236219 1.06E-06

Array-wide significant gene-based association is defined as P<2.5×10−6. P-values are based on the meta-analysis of Discovery Stage studies.

Gene-based analyses were performed with SKAT and VT; results shown are from the test (SKAT or VT) for which the significance exceeded P<2.5×10−6. Only results using the "broad" SNV inclusion criteria reached array-wide significance.

Transcript positions are reported according to Build 37 for the longest coding transcript supported by RefSeq (as displayed in USCS Genome Browser).

a

P-value after conditioning on the most significant (top) single variant aggregated in the gene-based test.