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Michael Joseph Blaha

Johns Hopkins UniversityORCID 0000-0001-5138-9683Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:GWAS / association mapping· 1 Assay:GWAS summary statistics· 1 Organism:human· 1 Research Focus:polygenic risk· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Alexis J. BattleiD· 1 shared Allison W. PengiD· 1 shared April KimiD· 1 shared Marios ArvanitisiD· 1 shared Rexford S. AhimaiD· 1 shared Roger Scott BlumenthaliD· 1 shared Seraj N. Grimes· 1 shared Sohail ZahidiD· 1 shared

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Genetic & Genomic MedicinemedRxivPreprintMay 22, 2026

Genome-wide analysis and polygenic prediction of clinical obesity and comparison with body mass index

Sohail Zahid, Seraj N. Grimes, April Kim…·Alexis J. Battle

The paper conducts a genome-wide analysis of clinical obesity, identifies distinct genetic loci, and shows that a clinical obesity polygenic score improves cardiovascular risk prediction compared to BMI-based scores.

DOI 10.64898/2026.05.20.26353665

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