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Introduction
Recent genome‐wide association studies have identified 103 adult obesity risk loci; however, it is unclear if these findings are relevant to East‐Asian childhood body mass index (BMI) levels.
Methods and Results
We evaluated for paediatric obesity associations at these risk loci utilizing genome‐wide data from Chinese childhood subjects in the Singapore Cohort study Of the Risk factors...