Endocrine Abstracts

Three independent studies identified SNPs in the first intron of the gene FTO as being strongly and consistently associated with BMI and/or obesity at significance levels (P=10−7 to P=10−30) unobserved so far in genetics of obesity. The three studies estimated the putative effect around 1% of the total variance of BMI. So far, this represents the strongest effect for a common variant in obesity.This result ...