Research Article

Mendelian Randomisation Study of Childhood BMI and Early Menarche

Table 2

Associations between individual BMI-increasing variants and BMI at age 20 years in 8,156 EPIC-Norfolk women.

Nearby geneSNPChromosomePositionB* (kg/m2/allele)Lower CIUpper CI

SEC16Brs10913469 1 176180142 0.28 0.17 0.38
TMEM18rs6548238 2 624905 0.21 0.10 0.32
FTOrs1121980 16 52366748 0.20 0.11 0.29
FAIM2rs7132908 12 48549415 0.15 0.06 0.23
BDNFrs925946 11 27623778 0.13 0.03 0.22
MC4Rrs17782313 18 56002077 0.13 0.03 0.23
GNPDA2rs10938397 4 45023455 0.10 0.01 0.19
SH2B1rs7498665 16 28790742 0.09 0.00 0.18
NEGR1rs2568958 1 72477137 0.08 −0.01 0.16
ETV5rs7647305 3 187316992 0.08 −0.03 0.18
MTCH2rs10838738 11 47619625 0.08 −0.02 0.17
KCTD15rs368794 19 39012292 0.06 −0.03 0.15

*B: regression coefficient from additive genetic models for the previously reported BMI-increasing allele.