Chunk #38 — METHODS — Copy number variations correlated with BMI index SNPs

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

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To study common copy number variations, we used a list of copy number variations well-tagged by SNPs in high LD (r2 > 0.8) with deletions in European populations from phase 1 release of the 1000 Genomes Project47 (Supplementary Table 25).