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Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Genetics, December 2008
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2 news outlets
blogs
7 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
1 X user
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5 patents
wikipedia
17 Wikipedia pages
reddit
5 Redditors
q&a
1 Q&A thread
guideline
1 clinical guideline source
podcasts
1 podcast

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870 Mendeley
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5 CiteULike
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3 Connotea
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Article details
Title
Six new loci associated with body mass index highlight a neuronal influence on body weight regulation
Published in
Nature Genetics, December 2008
DOI 10.1038/ng.287
Pubmed ID
Authors

Cristen J Willer, Elizabeth K Speliotes, Ruth J F Loos, Shengxu Li, Cecilia M Lindgren, Iris M Heid, Sonja I Berndt, Amanda L Elliott, Anne U Jackson, Claudia Lamina, Guillaume Lettre, Noha Lim, Helen N Lyon, Steven A McCarroll, Konstantinos Papadakis, Lu Qi, Joshua C Randall, Rosa Maria Roccasecca, Serena Sanna, Paul Scheet, Michael N Weedon, Eleanor Wheeler, Jing Hua Zhao, Leonie C Jacobs, Inga Prokopenko, Nicole Soranzo, Toshiko Tanaka, Nicholas J Timpson, Peter Almgren, Amanda Bennett, Richard N Bergman, Sheila A Bingham, Lori L Bonnycastle, Morris Brown, Noël P Burtt, Peter Chines, Lachlan Coin, Francis S Collins, John M Connell, Cyrus Cooper, George Davey Smith, Elaine M Dennison, Parimal Deodhar, Paul Elliott, Michael R Erdos, Karol Estrada, David M Evans, Lauren Gianniny, Christian Gieger, Christopher J Gillson, Candace Guiducci, Rachel Hackett, David Hadley, Alistair S Hall, Aki S Havulinna, Johannes Hebebrand, Albert Hofman, Bo Isomaa, Kevin B Jacobs, Toby Johnson, Pekka Jousilahti, Zorica Jovanovic, Kay-Tee Khaw, Peter Kraft, Mikko Kuokkanen, Johanna Kuusisto, Jaana Laitinen, Edward G Lakatta, Jian'an Luan, Robert N Luben, Massimo Mangino, Wendy L McArdle, Thomas Meitinger, Antonella Mulas, Patricia B Munroe, Narisu Narisu, Andrew R Ness, Kate Northstone, Stephen O'Rahilly, Carolin Purmann, Matthew G Rees, Martin Ridderstråle, Susan M Ring, Fernando Rivadeneira, Aimo Ruokonen, Manjinder S Sandhu, Jouko Saramies, Laura J Scott, Angelo Scuteri, Kaisa Silander, Matthew A Sims, Kijoung Song, Jonathan Stephens, Suzanne Stevens, Heather M Stringham, Y C Loraine Tung, Timo T Valle, Cornelia M Van Duijn, Karani S Vimaleswaran, Peter Vollenweider, Gerard Waeber, Chris Wallace, Richard M Watanabe, Dawn M Waterworth, Nicholas Watkins, Jacqueline C M Witteman, Eleftheria Zeggini, Guangju Zhai, M Carola Zillikens, David Altshuler, Mark J Caulfield, Stephen J Chanock, I Sadaf Farooqi, Luigi Ferrucci, Jack M Guralnik, Andrew T Hattersley, Frank B Hu, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Markku Laakso, Vincent Mooser, Ken K Ong, Willem H Ouwehand, Veikko Salomaa, Nilesh J Samani, Timothy D Spector, Tiinamaija Tuomi, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Manuela Uda, André G Uitterlinden, Nicholas J Wareham, Panagiotis Deloukas, Timothy M Frayling, Leif C Groop, Richard B Hayes, David J Hunter, Karen L Mohlke, Leena Peltonen, David Schlessinger, David P Strachan, H-Erich Wichmann, Mark I McCarthy, Michael Boehnke, Inês Barroso, Gonçalo R Abecasis, Joel N Hirschhorn

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 15 2%
United Kingdom 9 1%
Germany 5 <1%
Canada 3 <1%
Finland 3 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Other 11 1%
Unknown 818 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 186 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 161 19%
Student > Bachelor 80 9%
Student > Master 80 9%
Professor 47 5%
Other 185 21%
Unknown 131 15%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 249 29%
Medicine and Dentistry 157 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 147 17%
Neuroscience 24 3%
Psychology 23 3%
Other 107 12%
Unknown 163 19%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 85. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 July 2026.
All research outputs
#631,139
of 34,294,206 outputs
Outputs from Nature Genetics
#1,148
of 8,759 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,858
of 243,945 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Genetics
#3
of 67 outputs
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