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Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

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Title
Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
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Nature, February 2015
DOI 10.1038/nature14177
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Adam E. Locke, Bratati Kahali, Sonja I. Berndt, Anne E. Justice, Tune H. Pers, Felix R. Day, Corey Powell, Sailaja Vedantam, Martin L. Buchkovich, Jian Yang, Damien C. Croteau-Chonka, Tonu Esko, Tove Fall, Teresa Ferreira, Stefan Gustafsson, Zoltán Kutalik, Jian’an Luan, Reedik Mägi, Joshua C. Randall, Thomas W. Winkler, Andrew R. Wood, Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Jessica D. Faul, Jennifer A. Smith, Jing Hua Zhao, Wei Zhao, Jin Chen, Rudolf Fehrmann, Åsa K. Hedman, Juha Karjalainen, Ellen M. Schmidt, Devin Absher, Najaf Amin, Denise Anderson, Marian Beekman, Jennifer L. Bolton, Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham, Steven Buyske, Ayse Demirkan, Guohong Deng, Georg B. Ehret, Bjarke Feenstra, Mary F. Feitosa, Krista Fischer, Anuj Goel, Jian Gong, Anne U. Jackson, Stavroula Kanoni, Marcus E. Kleber, Kati Kristiansson, Unhee Lim, Vaneet Lotay, Massimo Mangino, Irene Mateo Leach, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Sarah E. Medland, Michael A. Nalls, Cameron D. Palmer, Dorota Pasko, Sonali Pechlivanis, Marjolein J. Peters, Inga Prokopenko, Dmitry Shungin, Alena Stančáková, Rona J. Strawbridge, Yun Ju Sung, Toshiko Tanaka, Alexander Teumer, Stella Trompet, Sander W. van der Laan, Jessica van Setten, Jana V. Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Zhaoming Wang, Loïc Yengo, Weihua Zhang, Aaron Isaacs, Eva Albrecht, Johan Ärnlöv, Gillian M. Arscott, Antony P. Attwood, Stefania Bandinelli, Amy Barrett, Isabelita N. Bas, Claire Bellis, Amanda J. Bennett, Christian Berne, Roza Blagieva, Matthias Blüher, Stefan Böhringer, Lori L. Bonnycastle, Yvonne Böttcher, Heather A. Boyd, Marcel Bruinenberg, Ida H. Caspersen, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Robert Clarke, E. Warwick Daw, Anton J. M. de Craen, Graciela Delgado, Maria Dimitriou, Alex S. F. Doney, Niina Eklund, Karol Estrada, Elodie Eury, Lasse Folkersen, Ross M. Fraser, Melissa E. Garcia, Frank Geller, Vilmantas Giedraitis, Bruna Gigante, Alan S. Go, Alain Golay, Alison H. Goodall, Scott D. Gordon, Mathias Gorski, Hans-Jörgen Grabe, Harald Grallert, Tanja B. Grammer, Jürgen Gräßler, Henrik Grönberg, Christopher J. Groves, Gaëlle Gusto, Jeffrey Haessler, Per Hall, Toomas Haller, Goran Hallmans, Catharina A. Hartman, Maija Hassinen, Caroline Hayward, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Quinta Helmer, Christian Hengstenberg, Oddgeir Holmen, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Alan L. James, Janina M. Jeff, Åsa Johansson, Jennifer Jolley, Thorhildur Juliusdottir, Leena Kinnunen, Wolfgang Koenig, Markku Koskenvuo, Wolfgang Kratzer, Jaana Laitinen, Claudia Lamina, Karin Leander, Nanette R. Lee, Peter Lichtner, Lars Lind, Jaana Lindström, Ken Sin Lo, Stéphane Lobbens, Roberto Lorbeer, Yingchang Lu, François Mach, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Anubha Mahajan, Wendy L. McArdle, Stela McLachlan, Cristina Menni, Sigrun Merger, Evelin Mihailov, Lili Milani, Alireza Moayyeri, Keri L. Monda, Mario A. Morken, Antonella Mulas, Gabriele Müller, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Arthur W. Musk, Ramaiah Nagaraja, Markus M. 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Dominiczak, Raimund Erbel, Jeanette Erdmann, Johan G. Eriksson, Martin Farrall, Stephan B. Felix, Ele Ferrannini, Jean Ferrières, Ian Ford, Nita G. Forouhi, Terrence Forrester, Oscar H. Franco, Ron T. Gansevoort, Pablo V. Gejman, Christian Gieger, Omri Gottesman, Vilmundur Gudnason, Ulf Gyllensten, Alistair S. Hall, Tamara B. Harris, Andrew T. Hattersley, Andrew A. Hicks, Lucia A. Hindorff, Aroon D. Hingorani, Albert Hofman, Georg Homuth, G. Kees Hovingh, Steve E. Humphries, Steven C. Hunt, Elina Hyppönen, Thomas Illig, Kevin B. Jacobs, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, Berit Johansen, Pekka Jousilahti, J. Wouter Jukema, Antti M. Jula, Jaakko Kaprio, John J. P. Kastelein, Sirkka M. Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Paul Knekt, Jaspal S. Kooner, Charles Kooperberg, Peter Kovacs, Aldi T. Kraja, Meena Kumari, Johanna Kuusisto, Timo A. Lakka, Claudia Langenberg, Loic Le Marchand, Terho Lehtimäki, Valeriya Lyssenko, Satu Männistö, André Marette, Tara C. Matise, Colin A. 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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 27 <1%
United Kingdom 12 <1%
Germany 8 <1%
Spain 6 <1%
Switzerland 4 <1%
Netherlands 4 <1%
Brazil 3 <1%
Canada 3 <1%
Norway 3 <1%
Other 27 <1%
Unknown 3732 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 621 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 578 15%
Student > Bachelor 410 11%
Student > Master 384 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 200 5%
Other 659 17%
Unknown 977 26%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 672 18%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 643 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 600 16%
Nursing and Health Professions 117 3%
Psychology 106 3%
Other 543 14%
Unknown 1148 30%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 859. 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.
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#26,345
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Outputs from Nature
#2,261
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#196
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Outputs of similar age from Nature
#21
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