Predicting novel candidate human obesity genes and their site of action by systematic functional screening in Drosophila

• Neha Agrawal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Neha Agrawal, Katherine Lawler

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Institute of Cell Biology, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Roger Land Building, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

  Affiliation The Gurdon Institute and Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3916-5844

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• Katherine Lawler ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Neha Agrawal, Katherine Lawler

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Catherine M. Davidson,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation The Gurdon Institute and Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Julia M. Keogh,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Robert Legg,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7237-4744

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• INTERVAL,
• Inês Barroso,

  Roles Investigation

  Current address: Exeter Centre of Excellence for Diabetes Research (EXCEED), University of Exeter Medical School, RILD building, Exeter, United Kingdom

  Affiliations University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom, MRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5800-4520

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• I. Sadaf Farooqi ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: isf20@cam.ac.uk (ISF); a.brand@gurdon.cam.ac.uk (AHB)

  Affiliation University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories and NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre, Wellcome-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Andrea H. Brand

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: isf20@cam.ac.uk (ISF); a.brand@gurdon.cam.ac.uk (AHB)

  Affiliation The Gurdon Institute and Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2089-6954

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