Body mass index (BMI) 2017 GWAS: East Asian ancestry

Summary statistics are available for download from the GWAS Catalog.

Publications

Genome-wide association study identifies 112 new loci for body mass index in the Japanese population.
Akiyama M, et al.
Nat Genet. 2017 Oct;49(10):1458-1467. doi: 10.1038/ng.3951. Epub 2017 Sep 11.
PMID: 28892062

Phenotypes

• Body mass index (BMI)

Experiment summary

This study analyzed genetic associations for BMI in 158,284 Japanese individuals of East Asian ancestry.