Common genetic variants associated with obesity in an African-American and Hispanic/Latino population

• Brandon Chalazan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5319-6316

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• Denada Palm,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Arvind Sridhar,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Christina Lee,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Maria Argos,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Martha Daviglus,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Institute for Minority Health Research, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Jalees Rehman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Sreenivas Konda,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Dawood Darbar

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: darbar@uic.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Pharmacology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4103-5977

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