Yingjie Ji

A Saturated Map of Common Genetic Variants Associated with Human Height from 5.4 Million Individuals of Diverse Ancestries

This study identifies 12,111 SNPs associated with height from 5.4 million individuals, explaining most common SNP-based heritability and showing ancestry-specific prediction accuracy.

Fetal alleles predisposing to metabolically favourable adiposity are associated with higher birth weight

The paper examines the effect of fetal genetic predispositions to metabolically favourable adult adiposity and BMI on birth weight and other anthropometric traits, finding stronger associations with birth weight for the adiposity alleles.

Higher maternal adiposity reduces offspring birth weight if associated with a metabolically favourable profile

This study uses Mendelian Randomisation to show that maternal metabolically favourable adiposity is associated with lower offspring birth weight compared to general adiposity indexed by BMI.

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for body fat distribution in 694,649 individuals of European ancestry

Meta-analysis of waist-to-hip ratio adjusted for BMI in 694,649 European-ancestry individuals identifies 463 signals in 346 loci, roughly one-third sexually dimorphic and mostly stronger in women.

A common allele in FGF21 associated with preference for sugar consumption lowers body fat in the lower body and increases blood pressure

A common FGF21 allele is associated with lower body fat in the lower body, higher blood pressure, and increased carbohydrate intake in a large human cohort.