EGG Consortium 2019 childhood obesity GWAS: African American ancestry

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Publications

A trans-ancestral meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies reveals loci associated with childhood obesity
Bradfield JP et al.
Hum Mol Genet. 2019 Oct 1;28(19):3327-3338. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddz161.
PMID: 31504550

Phenotypes

  • Childhood obesity

Experiment summary

This study analyzed genetic associations for childhood obesity in 3,282 cases (≥95th percentile of body mass index (BMI) achieved 2-18 years old) and 1,456 controls (consistently <50th percentile of BMI) of African American ancestry.

Dataset ID
Bradfield2019_ChildObesity_AA