Paradoxical Relationship Between Body Mass Index and Thyroid Hormone Levels: A Study Using Mendelian Randomization.

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Published in J Clin Endocrinol Metab on November 23, 2015

Authors

Peter N Taylor1, Rebecca Richmond1, Neil Davies1, Adrian Sayers1, Kirsty Stevenson1, Wolfram Woltersdorf1, Andrew Taylor1, Alix Groom1, Kate Northstone1, Susan Ring1, Onyebuchi Okosieme1, Aled Rees1, Dorothea Nitsch1, Graham R Williams1, George Davey Smith1, John W Gregory1, Nicholas J Timpson1, Jonathan H Tobias1, Colin M Dayan1

Author Affiliations

1: Thyroid Research Group (P.N.T., O.O., J.W.G., C.M.D.) and Institute of Molecular and Experimental Medicine (A.R.), Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, CF14 4XN United Kingdom; Medical Research Council Integrative Epidemiology Unit (R.R., N.D., G.D.S., N.J.T.), University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN United Kingdom; Department of Social and Community Medicine (A.S., A.G., K.N., S.R.), University of Bristol, Bristol, BS8 2BN United Kingdom; Department of Biochemistry (K.S.), Bristol Royal Infirmary University Hospitals Bristol National Health Service Foundation Trust, Bristol, BS2 8HW United Kingdom; Geschäftsleiter Medizinisches Versorgungszentrum Labor Dr. Reising-Ackermann und Kollegen (W.W.), D-04289 Leipzig, Germany; Department of Biochemistry (A.T.), Royal United Hospital, Bath, BA1 3NG United Kingdom; Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology (D.N.), Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, CF14 4XN United Kingdom; Molecular Endocrinology Group (G.R.W.), Department of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, WC1E 7HT United Kingdom; and Musculoskeletal Research Unit (J.H.T.), University of Bristol, Learning and Research Southmead Hospital, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, BS10 5NB United Kingdom.

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