Abstract
We previously used a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in the CHRNA5-A3-B4 gene cluster associated with heaviness of smoking within smokers to confirm the causal effect of smoking in reducing body mass index (BMI) in a Mendelian randomisation analysis. While seeking to extend these findings in a larger sample we found that this SNP is associated with 0.74% lower body mass index (BMI) per minor allele in current smokers (95% CI -0.97 to -0.51, P = 2.00×10
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e1004799 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | PLoS Genetics |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
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