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Nigel W Rayner

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1 A common variant in the FTO gene is associated with body mass index and predisposes to childhood and adult obesity. Science 2007 37.88
2 Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data and large-scale replication identifies additional susceptibility loci for type 2 diabetes. Nat Genet 2008 35.06
3 Replication of genome-wide association signals in UK samples reveals risk loci for type 2 diabetes. Science 2007 32.97
4 Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index. Nat Genet 2010 23.08
5 Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height. Nature 2010 20.01
6 New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk. Nat Genet 2010 17.89
7 Common variants near MC4R are associated with fat mass, weight and risk of obesity. Nat Genet 2008 15.94
8 Association scan of 14,500 nonsynonymous SNPs in four diseases identifies autoimmunity variants. Nat Genet 2007 12.62
9 Genome-wide association study of CNVs in 16,000 cases of eight common diseases and 3,000 shared controls. Nature 2010 12.27
10 Meta-analysis identifies 13 new loci associated with waist-hip ratio and reveals sexual dimorphism in the genetic basis of fat distribution. Nat Genet 2010 7.94
11 A common variant of HMGA2 is associated with adult and childhood height in the general population. Nat Genet 2007 6.87
12 Large-scale association analyses identify new loci influencing glycemic traits and provide insight into the underlying biological pathways. Nat Genet 2012 4.73
13 Association analysis of 6,736 U.K. subjects provides replication and confirms TCF7L2 as a type 2 diabetes susceptibility gene with a substantial effect on individual risk. Diabetes 2006 3.79
14 Identification of new susceptibility loci for osteoarthritis (arcOGEN): a genome-wide association study. Lancet 2012 3.48
15 Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals. PLoS Genet 2012 3.21
16 Two new Loci for body-weight regulation identified in a joint analysis of genome-wide association studies for early-onset extreme obesity in French and german study groups. PLoS Genet 2010 3.21
17 Variants in ADCY5 and near CCNL1 are associated with fetal growth and birth weight. Nat Genet 2010 2.30
18 A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans. PLoS One 2012 1.72
19 The role of adiposity in cardiometabolic traits: a Mendelian randomization analysis. PLoS Med 2013 1.70
20 A variant in MCF2L is associated with osteoarthritis. Am J Hum Genet 2011 1.60
21 Coexpression network analysis in abdominal and gluteal adipose tissue reveals regulatory genetic loci for metabolic syndrome and related phenotypes. PLoS Genet 2012 1.31
22 Association of FTO variants with BMI and fat mass in the self-contained population of Sorbs in Germany. Eur J Hum Genet 2010 1.26
23 Genetic variation in GPR133 is associated with height: genome wide association study in the self-contained population of Sorbs. Hum Mol Genet 2009 1.16
24 MicroRNA expression in abdominal and gluteal adipose tissue is associated with mRNA expression levels and partly genetically driven. PLoS One 2011 1.11
25 Large-scale association analysis of TNF/LTA gene region polymorphisms in type 2 diabetes. BMC Med Genet 2010 0.90
26 No evidence of an association between mitochondrial DNA variants and osteoarthritis in 7393 cases and 5122 controls. Ann Rheum Dis 2012 0.86
27 Family-based analysis of tumor necrosis factor and lymphotoxin-alpha tag polymorphisms with type 1 diabetes in the population of South Croatia. Hum Immunol 2009 0.78
28 THOC5: a novel gene involved in HDL-cholesterol metabolism. J Lipid Res 2013 0.77
29 Correction: The Influence of Age and Sex on Genetic Associations with Adult Body Size and Shape: A Large-Scale Genome-Wide Interaction Study. PLoS Genet 2016 0.75