Association of Adiposity Genetic Variants With Menarche Timing in 92,105 Women of European Descent

L. Fernández-Rhodes, E.W. Demerath, D.L. Cousminer, R. Tao, J.G. Dreyfus, T. Esko, A.V. Smith, V. Gudnason, T.B. Harris, L. Launer, P.F. McArdle, L.M. Yerges-Armstrong, C.E. Elks, D.P. Strachan, Z. Kutalik, P. Vollenweider, B. Feenstra, H.A. Boyd, A. Metspalu, E. MihailovL. Broer, M.C. Zillikens, B.A. Oostra, C.M. van Duijn, K.L. Lunetta, J.R. Perry, A. Murray, D.L. Koller, D. Lai, T. Corre, D. Toniolo, E. Albrecht, D. Stöckl, H. Grallert, C. Gieger, C. Hayward, O. Polasek, I. Rudan, J.F. Wilson, C. He, P. Kraft, F.B. Hu, D.J. Hunter, J.J. Hottenga, G. Willemsen, D.I. Boomsma, E.M. Byrne, N.G. Martin, G.W. Montgomery, N.M. Warrington, C.E. Pennell, L. Stolk, J.A. Visser, A. Hofman, A.G. Uitterlinden, F. Rivadeneira, P. Lin, S.L. Fisher, L.J. Bierut, L. Crisponi, E. Porcu, M. Mangino, G. Zhai, T.D. Spector, J.E. Buring, L.M. Rose, P.M. Ridker, C. Poole, J.N. Hirschhorn, J.M. Murabito, D.I. Chasman, E. Widén, K.E. North, K.K. Ong, N. Franceschini

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Abstract

Obesity is of global health concern. There are well-described inverse relationships between female pubertal timing and obesity. Recent genome-wide association studies of age at menarche identified several obesity-related variants. Using data from the ReproGen Consortium, we employed meta-analytical techniques to estimate the associations of 95 a priori and recently identified obesity-related (body mass index (weight (kg)/height (m)
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)451-460
JournalAmerican Journal of Epidemiology
Volume178
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013

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  • Netherlands Twin Register (NTR)

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