The PLIN4 Variant rs8887 Modulates Obesity Related Phenotypes in Humans through Creation of a Novel miR-522 Seed Site

• Kris Richardson ,

  * E-mail: Kris.richardson@tufts.edu

  Affiliation Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Qiong Louie-Gao,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health/Boston University Medical Campus, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Donna K. Arnett,

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, and Clinical Nutrition Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• Laurence D. Parnell,

  Affiliation Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Chao-Qiang Lai,

  Affiliation Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Alberto Davalos,

  Affiliations Departments of Medicine and Cell Biology, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology and the Marc and Ruti Bell Program in Vascular Biology and Disease Program, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA) Alimentacion, Madrid, Spain

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• Caroline S. Fox,

  Affiliation Framingham Heart Study and the Center for Population Studies, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Serkalem Demissie,

  Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health/Boston University Medical Campus, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• L. Adrienne Cupples,

  Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health/Boston University Medical Campus, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Carlos Fernandez-Hernando,

  Affiliation Departments of Medicine and Cell Biology, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology and the Marc and Ruti Bell Program in Vascular Biology and Disease Program, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Jose M. Ordovas

  Affiliations Nutrition and Genomics Laboratory, Jean Mayer United States Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Population Genetics, Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain

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