Genome-Wide Association for Abdominal Subcutaneous and Visceral Adipose Reveals a Novel Locus for Visceral Fat in Women

• Caroline S. Fox ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline S. Fox, Yongmei Liu

  * E-mail: foxca@nhlbi.nih.gov (CSF); yoliu@wfubmc.edu (YL); harris99@nih.nih.gov (TBH); adrienne@bu.edu (LAC); ingrid@dsgmail.wustl.edu (IBB)

  Affiliations Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Population Studies, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Endocrinology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Yongmei Liu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Caroline S. Fox, Yongmei Liu

  * E-mail: foxca@nhlbi.nih.gov (CSF); yoliu@wfubmc.edu (YL); harris99@nih.nih.gov (TBH); adrienne@bu.edu (LAC); ingrid@dsgmail.wustl.edu (IBB)

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Charles C. White,

  Affiliations Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Mary Feitosa,

  Affiliation Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Albert V. Smith,

  Affiliations Icelandic Heart Association, Research Institute, Kopavogur, Iceland, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

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• Nancy Heard-Costa,

  Affiliations Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Kurt Lohman,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• GIANT Consortium,
• MAGIC Consortium ,

  ¶‡ Membership of the MAGIC Consortium is provided in Text S1.

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• GLGC Consortium,
• Andrew D. Johnson,

  Affiliations Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Population Studies, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Meredith C. Foster,

  Affiliations Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for Population Studies, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Danielle M. Greenawalt,

  Affiliation Merck Research Laboratories, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Paula Griffin,

  Affiliations Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jinghong Ding,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Anne B. Newman,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Fran Tylavsky,

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Iva Miljkovic,

  Affiliation Center for Aging and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America

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• Stephen B. Kritchevsky,

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Lenore Launer,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Melissa Garcia,

  Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• Gudny Eiriksdottir,

  Affiliation Icelandic Heart Association, Research Institute, Kopavogur, Iceland

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• J. Jeffrey Carr,

  Affiliation Departments of Radiologic Sciences, Internal Medicine-Cardiology, and Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Vilmunder Gudnason,

  Affiliations Icelandic Heart Association, Research Institute, Kopavogur, Iceland, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

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• Tamara B. Harris ,

  * E-mail: foxca@nhlbi.nih.gov (CSF); yoliu@wfubmc.edu (YL); harris99@nih.nih.gov (TBH); adrienne@bu.edu (LAC); ingrid@dsgmail.wustl.edu (IBB)

  ¶These authors were joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

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• L. Adrienne Cupples ,

  * E-mail: foxca@nhlbi.nih.gov (CSF); yoliu@wfubmc.edu (YL); harris99@nih.nih.gov (TBH); adrienne@bu.edu (LAC); ingrid@dsgmail.wustl.edu (IBB)

  ¶These authors were joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Framingham Heart Study, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Ingrid B. Borecki

  * E-mail: foxca@nhlbi.nih.gov (CSF); yoliu@wfubmc.edu (YL); harris99@nih.nih.gov (TBH); adrienne@bu.edu (LAC); ingrid@dsgmail.wustl.edu (IBB)

  ¶These authors were joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Division of Statistical Genomics, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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