@article{b6c39dd39f674ab58865ede6d41c37c4,
title = "FTO, type 2 diabetes, and weight gain throughout adult life: a meta-analysis of 41,504 subjects from the Scandinavian HUNT, MDC, and MPP studies",
abstract = "FTO is the most important polygene identified for obesity. We aimed to investigate whether a variant in FTO affects type 2 diabetes risk entirely through its effect on BMI and how FTO influences BMI across adult life span.",
keywords = "Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, European Continental Ancestry Group, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Genotype, Humans, Male, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Proteins, Weight Gain",
author = "Hertel, {Jens K} and Stefan Johansson and Emily Sonestedt and Jonsson, {Anna Elisabet} and Lie, {Rolv T} and Platou, {Carl G P} and Nilsson, {Peter M} and Gull Rukh and Kristian Midthjell and Kristian Hveem and Olle Melander and Leif Groop and Valeriya Lyssenko and Anders Molven and Marju Orho-Melander and Nj{\o}lstad, {P{\aa}l R}",
year = "2011",
month = may,
doi = "10.2337/db10-1340",
language = "English",
volume = "60",
pages = "1637--44",
journal = "Diabetes",
issn = "0046-0192",
publisher = "American Diabetes Association",
number = "5",
}