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Article details
Title
The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study
Published in
PLoS Genetics, October 2015
DOI 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005378
Pubmed ID
Authors

Thomas W. Winkler, Anne E. Justice, Mariaelisa Graff, Llilda Barata, Mary F. Feitosa, Su Chu, Jacek Czajkowski, Tõnu Esko, Tove Fall, Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen, Yingchang Lu, Reedik Mägi, Evelin Mihailov, Tune H. Pers, Sina Rüeger, Alexander Teumer, Georg B. Ehret, Teresa Ferreira, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Juha Karjalainen, Vasiliki Lagou, Anubha Mahajan, Michael D. Neinast, Inga Prokopenko, Jeannette Simino, Tanya M. Teslovich, Rick Jansen, Harm-Jan Westra, Charles C. White, Devin Absher, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, Shafqat Ahmad, Eva Albrecht, Alexessander Couto Alves, Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham, Anton J. M. de Craen, Joshua C. Bis, Amélie Bonnefond, Gabrielle Boucher, Gemma Cadby, Yu-Ching Cheng, Charleston W. K. Chiang, Graciela Delgado, Ayse Demirkan, Nicole Dueker, Niina Eklund, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Joel Eriksson, Bjarke Feenstra, Krista Fischer, Francesca Frau, Tessel E. Galesloot, Frank Geller, Anuj Goel, Mathias Gorski, Tanja B. Grammer, Stefan Gustafsson, Saskia Haitjema, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Jennifer E. Huffman, Anne U. Jackson, Kevin B. Jacobs, Åsa Johansson, Marika Kaakinen, Marcus E. Kleber, Jari Lahti, Irene Mateo Leach, Benjamin Lehne, Youfang Liu, Ken Sin Lo, Mattias Lorentzon, Jian'an Luan, Pamela A. F. Madden, Massimo Mangino, Barbara McKnight, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Keri L. Monda, May E. Montasser, Gabriele Müller, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Ilja M. Nolte, Kalliope Panoutsopoulou, Laura Pascoe, Lavinia Paternoster, Nigel W. Rayner, Frida Renström, Federica Rizzi, Lynda M. Rose, Kathy A. Ryan, Perttu Salo, Serena Sanna, Hubert Scharnagl, Jianxin Shi, Albert Vernon Smith, Lorraine Southam, Alena Stančáková, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Rona J. Strawbridge, Yun Ju Sung, Ioanna Tachmazidou, Toshiko Tanaka, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Stella Trompet, Natalia Pervjakova, Jonathan P. Tyrer, Liesbeth Vandenput, Sander W van der Laan, Nathalie van der Velde, Jessica van Setten, Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Niek Verweij, Efthymia Vlachopoulou, Lindsay L. Waite, Sophie R. Wang, Zhaoming Wang, Sarah H. Wild, Christina Willenborg, James F. Wilson, Andrew Wong, Jian Yang, Loïc Yengo, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Lei Yu, Weihua Zhang, Jing Hua Zhao, Ehm A. Andersson, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Damiano Baldassarre, Karina Banasik, Matteo Barcella, Cristina Barlassina, Claire Bellis, Paola Benaglio, John Blangero, Matthias Blüher, Fabrice Bonnet, Lori L. Bonnycastle, Heather A. Boyd, Marcel Bruinenberg, Aron S Buchman, Harry Campbell, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Peter S. Chines, Simone Claudi-Boehm, John Cole, Francis S. Collins, Eco J. C. de Geus, Lisette C. P. G. M. de Groot, Maria Dimitriou, Jubao Duan, Stefan Enroth, Elodie Eury, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Nita G. Forouhi, Nele Friedrich, Pablo V. Gejman, Bruna Gigante, Nicola Glorioso, Alan S. Go, Omri Gottesman, Jürgen Gräßler, Harald Grallert, Niels Grarup, Yu-Mei Gu, Linda Broer, Annelies C. Ham, Torben Hansen, Tamara B. Harris, Catharina A. Hartman, Maija Hassinen, Nicholas Hastie, Andrew T. Hattersley, Andrew C. Heath, Anjali K. Henders, Dena Hernandez, Hans Hillege, Oddgeir Holmen, Kees G Hovingh, Jennie Hui, Lise L. Husemoen, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Pirro G. Hysi, Thomas Illig, Philip L. De Jager, Shapour Jalilzadeh, Torben Jørgensen, J. Wouter Jukema, Markus Juonala, Stavroula Kanoni, Maria Karaleftheri, Kay Tee Khaw, Leena Kinnunen, Steven J. Kittner, Wolfgang Koenig, Ivana Kolcic, Peter Kovacs, Nikolaj T. Krarup, Wolfgang Kratzer, Janine Krüger, Diana Kuh, Meena Kumari, Theodosios Kyriakou, Claudia Langenberg, Lars Lannfelt, Chiara Lanzani, Vaneet Lotay, Lenore J. Launer, Karin Leander, Jaana Lindström, Allan Linneberg, Yan-Ping Liu, Stéphane Lobbens, Robert Luben, Valeriya Lyssenko, Satu Männistö, Patrik K. Magnusson, Wendy L. McArdle, Cristina Menni, Sigrun Merger, Lili Milani, Grant W. Montgomery, Andrew P. Morris, Narisu Narisu, Mari Nelis, Ken K. Ong, Aarno Palotie, Louis Pérusse, Irene Pichler, Maria G. Pilia, Anneli Pouta, Myriam Rheinberger, Rasmus Ribel-Madsen, Marcus Richards, Kenneth M. Rice, Treva K. Rice, Carlo Rivolta, Veikko Salomaa, Alan R. Sanders, Mark A. Sarzynski, Salome Scholtens, Robert A. Scott, William R. Scott, Sylvain Sebert, Sebanti Sengupta, Bengt Sennblad, Thomas Seufferlein, Angela Silveira, P. Eline Slagboom, Jan H. Smit, Thomas H. Sparsø, Kathleen Stirrups, Ronald P. Stolk, Heather M. Stringham, Morris A Swertz, Amy J. Swift, Ann-Christine Syvänen, Sian-Tsung Tan, Barbara Thorand, Anke Tönjes, Angelo Tremblay, Emmanouil Tsafantakis, Peter J. van der Most, Uwe Völker, Marie-Claude Vohl, Judith M. Vonk, Melanie Waldenberger, Ryan W. Walker, Roman Wennauer, Elisabeth Widén, Gonneke Willemsen, Tom Wilsgaard, Alan F. Wright, M. Carola Zillikens, Suzanne C. van Dijk, Natasja M. van Schoor, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Paul I. W. de Bakker, Jacques S. Beckmann, John Beilby, David A. Bennett, Richard N. Bergman, Sven Bergmann, Carsten A. Böger, Bernhard O. Boehm, Eric Boerwinkle, Dorret I. Boomsma, Stefan R. Bornstein, Erwin P. Bottinger, Claude Bouchard, John C. Chambers, Stephen J. Chanock, Daniel I. Chasman, Francesco Cucca, Daniele Cusi, George Dedoussis, Jeanette Erdmann, Johan G. Eriksson, Denis A. Evans, Ulf de Faire, Martin Farrall, Luigi Ferrucci, Ian Ford, Lude Franke, Paul W. Franks, Philippe Froguel, Ron T. Gansevoort, Christian Gieger, Henrik Grönberg, Vilmundur Gudnason, Ulf Gyllensten, Per Hall, Anders Hamsten, Pim van der Harst, Caroline Hayward, Markku Heliövaara, Christian Hengstenberg, Andrew A Hicks, Aroon Hingorani, Albert Hofman, Frank Hu, Heikki V. Huikuri, Kristian Hveem, Alan L. James, Joanne M. Jordan, Antti Jula, Mika Kähönen, Eero Kajantie, Sekar Kathiresan, Lambertus A. L. M. Kiemeney, Mika Kivimaki, Paul B. Knekt, Heikki A. Koistinen, Jaspal S. Kooner, Seppo Koskinen, Johanna Kuusisto, Winfried Maerz, Nicholas G Martin, Markku Laakso, Timo A. Lakka, Terho Lehtimäki, Guillaume Lettre, Douglas F. Levinson, Lars Lind, Marja-Liisa Lokki, Pekka Mäntyselkä, Mads Melbye, Andres Metspalu, Braxton D. Mitchell, Frans L. Moll, Jeffrey C. Murray, Arthur W. Musk, Markku S. Nieminen, Inger Njølstad, Claes Ohlsson, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Ben A. Oostra, Lyle J Palmer, James S. Pankow, Gerard Pasterkamp, Nancy L. Pedersen, Oluf Pedersen, Brenda W. Penninx, Markus Perola, Annette Peters, Ozren Polašek, Peter P. Pramstaller, Bruce M. Psaty, Lu Qi, Thomas Quertermous, Olli T. Raitakari, Tuomo Rankinen, Rainer Rauramaa, Paul M. Ridker, John D. Rioux, Fernando Rivadeneira, Jerome I. Rotter, Igor Rudan, Hester M. den Ruijter, Juha Saltevo, Naveed Sattar, Heribert Schunkert, Peter E. H. Schwarz, Alan R. Shuldiner, Juha Sinisalo, Harold Snieder, Thorkild I. A. Sørensen, Tim D. Spector, Jan A. Staessen, Bandinelli Stefania, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Michael Stumvoll, Jean-Claude Tardif, Elena Tremoli, Jaakko Tuomilehto, André G. Uitterlinden, Matti Uusitupa, André L. M. Verbeek, Sita H. Vermeulen, Jorma S. Viikari, Veronique Vitart, Henry Völzke, Peter Vollenweider, Gérard Waeber, Mark Walker, Henri Wallaschofski, Nicholas J. Wareham, Hugh Watkins, Eleftheria Zeggini, Aravinda Chakravarti, Deborah J. Clegg, L. Adrienne Cupples, Penny Gordon-Larsen, Cashell E. Jaquish, D. C. Rao, Goncalo R. Abecasis, Themistocles L. Assimes, Inês Barroso, Sonja I. Berndt, Michael Boehnke, Panos Deloukas, Caroline S. Fox, Leif C. Groop, David J. Hunter, Erik Ingelsson, Robert C. Kaplan, Mark I. McCarthy, Karen L. Mohlke, Jeffrey R. O'Connell, David Schlessinger, David P. Strachan, Kari Stefansson, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Iris M. Heid, Kari E. North, Ingrid B. Borecki, Zoltán Kutalik, Ruth J. F. Loos

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
Netherlands 3 <1%
Sweden 2 <1%
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Singapore 1 <1%
Poland 1 <1%
Hungary 1 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 784 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 131 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 91 11%
Student > Master 88 11%
Student > Bachelor 76 10%
Other 37 5%
Other 151 19%
Unknown 225 28%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 150 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 113 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 90 11%
Nursing and Health Professions 41 5%
Psychology 22 3%
Other 108 14%
Unknown 275 34%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 95. 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 31 August 2026.
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#571,060
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Outputs from PLoS Genetics
#271
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Outputs of similar age
#6,122
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Outputs of similar age from PLoS Genetics
#6
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Altmetric has tracked 34,640,154 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 98th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 9,898 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 16.9. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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We're also able to compare this research output to 211 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its contemporaries.