Risk variants of obesity associated genes demonstrate BMI raising effect in a large cohort

• Muhammad Saqlain,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations University Institute of Biochemistry & Biotechnology, PMAS- Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Sialkot, Sialkot, Pakistan

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• Madiha Khalid,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Institute of Biochemistry & Biotechnology, PMAS- Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Fiaz,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Sadia Saeed,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Institute of Biochemistry & Biotechnology, PMAS- Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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• Asad Mehmood Raja,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Institute of Biochemistry & Biotechnology, PMAS- Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Mobeen Zafar,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University Institute of Biochemistry & Biotechnology, PMAS- Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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• Tahzeeb Fatima,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• João Bosco Pesquero,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Research and Molecular Diagnostic of Genetic Diseases–Department of Biophysics, Federal University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

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• Cristina Maglio,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden, Region Västra Götaland, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Rheumatology Clinic, Gothenburg, Sweden, Wallenberg Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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• Hadi Valadi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3482-2451

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• Muhammad Nawaz ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: muhammad.nawaz@gu.se (MN); ghazala@uaar.edu.pk (GKR)

  Affiliation Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0792-8296

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• Ghazala Kaukab Raja

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: muhammad.nawaz@gu.se (MN); ghazala@uaar.edu.pk (GKR)

  Affiliation University Institute of Biochemistry & Biotechnology, PMAS- Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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