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FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index

Overview of attention for article published in Nature, September 2012
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1 news outlet
blogs
4 blogs
policy
1 policy source
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22 X users
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5 patents
facebook
1 Facebook page
reddit
2 Redditors
q&a
1 Q&A thread

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516 Mendeley
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8 CiteULike
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Article details
Title
FTO genotype is associated with phenotypic variability of body mass index
Published in
Nature, September 2012
DOI 10.1038/nature11401
Pubmed ID
Authors

Jian Yang, Ruth J. F. Loos, Joseph E. Powell, Sarah E. Medland, Elizabeth K. Speliotes, Daniel I. Chasman, Lynda M. Rose, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Reedik Mägi, Lindsay Waite, Albert Vernon Smith, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Keri L. Monda, David Hadley, Anubha Mahajan, Guo Li, Karen Kapur, Veronique Vitart, Jennifer E. Huffman, Sophie R. Wang, Cameron Palmer, Tõnu Esko, Krista Fischer, Jing Hua Zhao, Ayşe Demirkan, Aaron Isaacs, Mary F. Feitosa, Jian’an Luan, Nancy L. Heard-Costa, Charles White, Anne U. Jackson, Michael Preuss, Andreas Ziegler, Joel Eriksson, Zoltán Kutalik, Francesca Frau, Ilja M. Nolte, Jana V. Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Kevin B. Jacobs, Niek Verweij, Anuj Goel, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Karol Estrada, Jennifer Lynn Bragg-Gresham, Serena Sanna, Carlo Sidore, Jonathan Tyrer, Alexander Teumer, Inga Prokopenko, Massimo Mangino, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Themistocles L. Assimes, Alan R. Shuldiner, Jennie Hui, John P. Beilby, Wendy L. McArdle, Per Hall, Talin Haritunians, Lina Zgaga, Ivana Kolcic, Ozren Polasek, Tatijana Zemunik, Ben A. Oostra, M. Juhani Junttila, Henrik Grönberg, Stefan Schreiber, Annette Peters, Andrew A. Hicks, Jonathan Stephens, Nicola S. Foad, Jaana Laitinen, Anneli Pouta, Marika Kaakinen, Gonneke Willemsen, Jacqueline M. Vink, Sarah H. Wild, Gerjan Navis, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Georg Homuth, Ulrich John, Carlos Iribarren, Tamara Harris, Lenore Launer, Vilmundur Gudnason, Jeffrey R. O’Connell, Eric Boerwinkle, Gemma Cadby, Lyle J. Palmer, Alan L. James, Arthur W. Musk, Erik Ingelsson, Bruce M. Psaty, Jacques S. Beckmann, Gerard Waeber, Peter Vollenweider, Caroline Hayward, Alan F. Wright, Igor Rudan, Leif C. Groop, Andres Metspalu, Kay-Tee Khaw, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Ingrid B. Borecki, Michael A. Province, Nicholas J. Wareham, Jean-Claude Tardif, Heikki V. Huikuri, L. Adrienne Cupples, Larry D. Atwood, Caroline S. Fox, Michael Boehnke, Francis S. Collins, Karen L. Mohlke, Jeanette Erdmann, Heribert Schunkert, Christian Hengstenberg, Klaus Stark, Mattias Lorentzon, Claes Ohlsson, Daniele Cusi, Jan A. Staessen, Melanie M. Van der Klauw, Peter P. Pramstaller, Sekar Kathiresan, Jennifer D. Jolley, Samuli Ripatti, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Eco J. C. de Geus, Dorret I. Boomsma, Brenda Penninx, James F. Wilson, Harry Campbell, Stephen J. Chanock, Pim van der Harst, Anders Hamsten, Hugh Watkins, Albert Hofman, Jacqueline C. Witteman, M. Carola Zillikens, André G. Uitterlinden, Fernando Rivadeneira, M. Carola Zillikens, Lambertus A. Kiemeney, Sita H. Vermeulen, Goncalo R. Abecasis, David Schlessinger, Sabine Schipf, Michael Stumvoll, Anke Tönjes, Tim D. Spector, Kari E. North, Guillaume Lettre, Mark I. McCarthy, Sonja I. Berndt, Andrew C. Heath, Pamela A. F. Madden, Dale R. Nyholt, Grant W. Montgomery, Nicholas G. Martin, Barbara McKnight, David P. Strachan, William G. Hill, Harold Snieder, Paul M. Ridker, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Kari Stefansson, Timothy M. Frayling, Joel N. Hirschhorn, Michael E. Goddard, Peter M. Visscher

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Mendeley demographics

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Geographical breakdown

Geographical breakdown
Country Count As %
United States 13 3%
United Kingdom 4 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Denmark 1 <1%
Egypt 1 <1%
Other 9 2%
Unknown 482 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status
Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 128 25%
Student > Ph. D. Student 95 18%
Student > Master 43 8%
Professor 40 8%
Student > Bachelor 32 6%
Other 112 22%
Unknown 66 13%
Readers by discipline
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 180 35%
Medicine and Dentistry 100 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 79 15%
Psychology 11 2%
Mathematics 10 2%
Other 49 9%
Unknown 87 17%
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 04 August 2026.
All research outputs
#931,328
of 34,208,280 outputs
Outputs from Nature
#32,512
of 117,174 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#4,241
of 210,872 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Nature
#370
of 1,033 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,208,280 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 117,174 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 95.7. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 72% of its peers.
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