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Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity

Overview of attention for article published in Nature Genetics, May 2008
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (97th percentile)

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news
2 news outlets
blogs
3 blogs
policy
2 policy sources
twitter
3 X users
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7 patents
wikipedia
2 Wikipedia pages
reddit
3 Redditors
podcasts
1 podcast

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817 Mendeley
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2 CiteULike
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2 Connotea
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Article details
Title
Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity
Published in
Nature Genetics, May 2008
DOI 10.1038/ng.140
Pubmed ID
Authors

Ruth J F Loos, Cecilia M Lindgren, Shengxu Li, Eleanor Wheeler, Jing Hua Zhao, Inga Prokopenko, Michael Inouye, Rachel M Freathy, Antony P Attwood, Jacques S Beckmann, Sonja I Berndt, Sven Bergmann, Amanda J Bennett, Sheila A Bingham, Murielle Bochud, Morris Brown, Stéphane Cauchi, John M Connell, Cyrus Cooper, George Davey Smith, Ian Day, Christian Dina, Subhajyoti De, Emmanouil T Dermitzakis, Alex S F Doney, Katherine S Elliott, Paul Elliott, David M Evans, I Sadaf Farooqi, Philippe Froguel, Jilur Ghori, Christopher J Groves, Rhian Gwilliam, David Hadley, Alistair S Hall, Andrew T Hattersley, Johannes Hebebrand, Iris M Heid, Blanca Herrera, Anke Hinney, Sarah E Hunt, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Toby Johnson, Jennifer D M Jolley, Fredrik Karpe, Andrew Keniry, Kay-Tee Khaw, Robert N Luben, Massimo Mangino, Jonathan Marchini, Wendy L McArdle, Ralph McGinnis, David Meyre, Patricia B Munroe, Andrew D Morris, Andrew R Ness, Matthew J Neville, Alexandra C Nica, Ken K Ong, Stephen O'Rahilly, Katharine R Owen, Colin N A Palmer, Konstantinos Papadakis, Simon Potter, Anneli Pouta, Lu Qi, Joshua C Randall, Nigel W Rayner, Susan M Ring, Manjinder S Sandhu, André Scherag, Matthew A Sims, Kijoung Song, Nicole Soranzo, Elizabeth K Speliotes, Holly E Syddall, Sarah A Teichmann, Nicholas J Timpson, Jonathan H Tobias, Manuela Uda, Carla I Ganz Vogel, Chris Wallace, Dawn M Waterworth, Michael N Weedon, Cristen J Willer, Vicki L Wraight, Xin Yuan, Eleftheria Zeggini, Joel N Hirschhorn, David P Strachan, Willem H Ouwehand, Mark J Caulfield, Nilesh J Samani, Timothy M Frayling, Peter Vollenweider, Gerard Waeber, Vincent Mooser, Panos Deloukas, Mark I McCarthy, Nicholas J Wareham, Inês Barroso

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 12 1%
United Kingdom 7 <1%
Switzerland 2 <1%
France 2 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Algeria 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Other 10 1%
Unknown 779 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 162 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 130 16%
Student > Master 79 10%
Student > Bachelor 78 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 45 6%
Other 175 21%
Unknown 148 18%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 190 23%
Medicine and Dentistry 182 22%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 127 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 22 3%
Social Sciences 18 2%
Other 109 13%
Unknown 169 21%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 57. 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 01 March 2026.
All research outputs
#928,225
of 34,054,827 outputs
Outputs from Nature Genetics
#1,591
of 8,715 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,740
of 125,644 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature Genetics
#2
of 68 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,054,827 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 97th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 8,715 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 44.3. This one has done well, scoring higher than 81% of its peers.
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