Do Gene Variants Influencing Adult Adiposity Affect Birth Weight? A Population-Based Study of 24 Loci in 4,744 Danish Individuals

The obesity gene, TMEM18, is of ancient origin, found in majority of neuronal cells in all major brain regions and associated with obesity in severely obese children

(2010) Markus Sällman Almén et al.   BMC Medical Genetics

Combined Analyses of 20 Common Obesity Susceptibility Variants

(2010) C. H. Sandholt et al.   DIABETES

Association between a Common Variant near MC4R and Change in Body Mass Index Develops by Two Weeks of Age

(2010) Clive J. Petry et al.   Hormone Research in Paediatrics

Genetic Markers of Adult Obesity Risk Are Associated with Greater Early Infancy Weight Gain and Growth

(2010) Cathy E. Elks et al.   PLOS MEDICINE

Life course variations in the associations between FTO and MC4R gene variants and body size

(2009) R. Hardy et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

Combined effects of MC4R and FTO common genetic variants on obesity in European general populations

(2009) Stéphane Cauchi et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE-JMM

Early Life Origins of Obesity: Role of Hypothalamic Programming

(2009) Sebastien G Bouret   JOURNAL OF PEDIATRIC GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION

Genome-wide association study for early-onset and morbid adult obesity identifies three new risk loci in European populations

(2009) David Meyre et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genetic variation in the hypothalamic pathways and its role on obesity

(2009) J. V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk et al.   Obesity Reviews

Genome-Wide Association Scan Meta-Analysis Identifies Three Loci Influencing Adiposity and Fat Distribution

(2009) Cecilia M. Lindgren et al.   PLoS Genetics

NRXN3 Is a Novel Locus for Waist Circumference: A Genome-Wide Association Study from the CHARGE Consortium

(2009) Nancy L. Heard-Costa et al.   PLoS Genetics

Lessons from Extreme Human Obesity: Monogenic Disorders

(2008) Sayali A. Ranadive et al.   ENDOCRINOLOGY AND METABOLISM CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA

Genome-wide association scans identified CTNNBL1 as a novel gene for obesity

(2008) Yong-Jun Liu et al.   HUMAN MOLECULAR GENETICS

The Association between theFTOGene and Fat Mass in Humans Develops by the Postnatal Age of Two Weeks

(2008) Abel López-Bermejo et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM

Common nonsynonymous variants in PCSK1 confer risk of obesity

(2008) Michael Benzinou et al.   NATURE GENETICS

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

(2008) Ruth J F Loos et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genome-wide association yields new sequence variants at seven loci that associate with measures of obesity

(2008) Gudmar Thorleifsson et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Common genetic variation near MC4R is associated with waist circumference and insulin resistance

(2008) John C Chambers et al.   NATURE GENETICS

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

(2008) Cristen J Willer et al.   NATURE GENETICS