The Genetics of Obesity

1. Genetic Variation and Obesity Prior to the Era of Genome-Wide Association Studies
Shana E. McCormack

2. Genetic Obesity Syndromes
I. Sadaf Farooqi, Stephen O’Rahilly

3. Genome-Wide Association Studies of Obesity
Åsa K. Hedman, Cecilia M. Lindgren, Mark I. McCarthy

4. Copy Number Variants and Their Contribution to the Risk of Obesity
Julia Sarah El-Sayed Moustafa, Philippe Froguel

5. Genetics of Childhood Obesity
Struan F. A. Grant

6. Genetic Pleiotropies of Obesity
Bratati Kahali, Elizabeth K. Speliotes

7. Functional Follow-up of Genetic Variants Using FTO as the Prime Example
Stefanie Seehaus, Ulrich Rüther

Keywords: Biomedicine, Human Genetics, Endocrinology, Biomedicine general