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Overview (Pulit et al, BMI)

I downloaded and analyzed the summary statistics from Pulit et al.'s1 GWAS of body mass index (BMI). This GWAS is a meta-analysis combining UK Biobank and GIANT Consortium data from participants of European ancestry.

  1. Sara L Pulit, Charli Stoneman, Andrew P Morris, Andrew R Wood, Craig A Glastonbury, Jessica Tyrrell, Loïc Yengo, Teresa Ferreira, Eirini Marouli, Yingjie Ji, and others. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for body fat distribution in 694 649 individuals of european ancestry. Human molecular genetics, 28(1):166–174, 2019. URL: https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/28/1/166/5098227. ↩