Obesity is globally prevalent and highly heritable, but its underlying genetic factors remain
largely elusive. To identify genetic loci for obesity susceptibility, we examined associations …

Availability of health technology is inversely related to health need. Although health-care
systems in high-income countries make extensive use of technology, people in the world's …

Common copy number variations (CNVs) represent a significant source of genetic diversity,
yet their influence on phenotypic variability, including disease susceptibility, remains poorly …

Markov and Markov reward models are widely used for the performance and reliability
analysis of computer and communication systems. Models of real systems often contain …

High blood pressure is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease and premature death.
However, there is limited knowledge on specific causal genes and pathways. To better …

Bariatric surgery is recognized as the most clinically and cost‐effective treatment for people
with severe and complex obesity. Many people presenting for surgery have pre‐existing low …

We have investigated the polymorphism in intron 2 of the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist
gene and identified two new alleles of the system. We have shown that the polymorphism is …

Interindividual variation in mean leukocyte telomere length (LTL) is associated with cancer
and several age-associated diseases. We report here a genome-wide meta-analysis of …

We analyzed genome-wide association data from 1,380 Europeans with early-onset and
morbid adult obesity and 1,416 age-matched normal-weight controls. Thirty-eight markers …

In genome-wide association (GWA) data from 2,151 nondiabetic French subjects, we
identified rs1387153, near MTNR1B (which encodes the melatonin receptor 2 (MT2)), as a …