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- December 6, 2015.
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- Guo-Bo Chen1,
- Sang Hong Lee1,2,
- Matthew R Robinson1,
- Maciej Trzaskowski1,
- Zhi-Xiang Zhu3,
- Thomas W Winkler4,
- Felix R Day5,
- Damien C Croteau-Chonka6,7,
- Andrew R Wood8,
- Adam E Locke9,
- Zoltán Kutalik10,11,12,
- Ruth J F Loos13,14,15,
- Timothy M Frayling8,
- Joel N Hirschhorn16,17,18,19,
- Jian Yang1,21,
- Naomi R Wray1,
- The Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium20 and
- Peter M Visscher1,21
- 1Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- 2School of Environmental and Rural Science, The University of New England, Armidale, New South Walsh, Australia
- 3SPLUS Game, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
- 4Department of Genetic Epidemiology, Institute of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany
- 5Medical Research Council (MRC) Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, UK
- 6Department of Genetics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
- 7Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- 8Genetics of Complex Traits, University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
- 9Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- 10Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 11Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland
- 12Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland
- 13The Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
- 14The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
- 15The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, USA
- 16Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- 17Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- 18Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- 19Division of Endocrinology, Boston Childrenမs Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- 20A full list of members is available in the Supplementary Note
- 21The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translation Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Correspondence should be addressed to: GBC (chen.guobo{at}foxmail.com) or PMV (peter.visscher{at}uq.edu.au)