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Allison W. Peng

Johns Hopkins UniversityORCID 0000-0002-1801-6815Unclaimed 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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Genome-wide analysis and polygenic prediction of clinical obesity and comparison with body mass index

Sohail Zahid, Seraj N. Grimes, April Kim, Zhiqi Yao, Allison W. Peng, Roger Scott Blumenthal, Rexford S. Ahima, Marios Arvanitis, Michael Joseph Blaha, 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.

medRxiv · May 22, 2026 · PreprintGenetic & Genomic Medicine