Signatures of Natural Selection at the FTO (Fat Mass and Obesity Associated) Locus in Human Populations

• Xuanshi Liu ,

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Bioinformatics Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Kerstin Weidle ,

  ¶‡ These authors contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Kristin Schröck,

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Anke Tönjes,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Dorit Schleinitz,

  Affiliation IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Jana Breitfeld,

  Affiliation IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Michael Stumvoll,

  Affiliations IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Yvonne Böttcher,

  Affiliation IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Torsten Schöneberg,

  Affiliation Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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• Peter Kovacs

  * E-mail: peter.kovacs@medizin.uni-leipzig.de

  Affiliation IFB AdiposityDiseases, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

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