Chunk #41 — METHODS — GRAIL

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Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology.

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We used GRAIL27 to identify genes near BMI-associated loci having similarities in the published scientific text using PubMed abstracts as of December 2006. The BMI loci were queried against HapMap release 22 for the European panel, and we controlled for gene size.