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ArticleNature communications2023

Large scale phenotype imputation and in vivo functional validation implicate ADAMTS14 as an adiposity gene.

Katherine A Kentistou, Jian'an Luan, Laura B L Wittemans, Catherine Hambly, Lucija Klaric, Zoltán Kutalik, John R Speakman, Nicholas J Wareham, Timothy J Kendall, Claudia Langenberg and 3 more

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 18% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. The impact of ADAMTS14 genetic polymorphisms and its function on susceptibility to and prognosis of gastric cancer in a Chinese Han population.Gastric cancer : official journal of the International Gastric Cancer Association and the Japanese Gastric Cancer Association · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 8 institutions in 4 countries.

Katherine A KentistouCentre for Cardiovascular Science, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5816-664X
Jian'an LuanMRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3137-6337
Laura B L WittemansMRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.
Catherine HamblyInstitute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2947-4539
Lucija KlaricMRC Human Genetics Unit, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH4 2XU, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-3105-8929
Zoltán KutalikCentre for Primary Care and Public Health, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, 1010, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0001-8285-7523
John R SpeakmanInstitute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, AB24 2TZ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2457-1823
Nicholas J WarehamMRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1422-2993
Timothy J KendallCentre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4174-2786
Claudia LangenbergMRC Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Metabolic Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-5017-7344
James F WilsonCentre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5751-9178
Peter K JoshiCentre for Global Health Research, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9AG, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6361-5059
Nicholas M MortonCentre for Cardiovascular Science, Queen's Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH16 4TJ, UK. nik.morton@ed.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0001-8218-8462
University of Cambridge · GBInstitute of Genetics and Cancer · GBCentre for Inflammation Research · GBKunming Institute of Zoology · CNSIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics · CHThe Queen's Medical Research Institute · GBUniversity of Aberdeen · GBUniversity of Edinburgh · GB

Funding

Chief Scientist Office CZB/4/710Medical Research Council MC_PC_17228Medical Research Council MC_UU_00006/2Medical Research Council MC_UU_00007/10Medical Research Council MC_UU_12015/1Medical Research Council MR/N003284/1Medical Research Council MR/R026408/1Wellcome Trust
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Obesity remains an unmet global health burden. Detrimental anatomical distribution of body fat is a major driver of obesity-mediated mortality risk and is demonstrably heritable. However, our understanding of the full genetic contribution to human adiposity is incomplete, as few studies measure adiposity directly. To address this, we impute whole-body imaging adiposity phenotypes in UK Biobank from the 4,366 directly measured participants onto the rest of the cohort, greatly increasing our discovery power. Using these imputed phenotypes in 392,535 participants yielded hundreds of genome-wide significant associations, six of which replicate in independent cohorts. The leading causal gene candidate, ADAMTS14, is further investigated in a mouse knockout model. Concordant with the human association data, the Adamts14

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ADAMTS ProteinsAdiposityObesityAnimalsBody Mass IndexGenomeHumansMiceMice, KnockoutPhenotypeWeight GainADAMTS14 protein, humanADAMTS Proteins

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PMID36658113
PMCPMC9852585
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