A thrifty variant in CREBRF strongly influences body mass index in Samoans
Minster RL, Hawley NL, Su CT, Sun G, Kershaw EE, Cheng H, Buhule OD, Lin J, Reupena MS, Viali S, Tuitele J, Naseri T, Urban Z, Deka R, Weeks DE, McGarvey ST. A thrifty variant in CREBRF strongly influences body mass index in Samoans. Nature Genetics 2016, 48: 1049-1054. PMID: 27455349, PMCID: PMC5069069, DOI: 10.1038/ng.3620.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsBody mass indexMass indexObesity risk variantsLarge effect sizesMissense variantsRisk variantsEffect sizeCREBRFVariants