Habitual physical activity 2018 GWAS: European ancestry

Summary statistics are available for download from the GWAS Catalog.

Publications

Genome-wide association study of habitual physical activity in over 377,000 UK Biobank participants identifies multiple variants including CADM2 and APOE.
Klimentidis YC, et al.
Int J Obes (Lond). 2018 Jun;42(6):1161-1176. doi: 10.1038/s41366-018-0120-3. Epub 2018 Jun 13.
PMID: 29899525

Phenotypes

  • Accelerometer-based physical activity measurement (average acceleration)
  • Accelerometer-based physical activity measurement (fraction of time with accelerations >425 milli-gravities)
  • Moderate to vigorous physical activity levels
  • Vigorous physical activity

Experiment summary

This study analyzed genetic associations for measures of habitual physical activity in 377,234 individuals of European ancestry.

Dataset ID
Klimentidis2018_PhysicalActivity_EU