Nilesh J Samani

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus
other 2019
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-019-0447-2

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

other 2018
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-017-0011-x

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >250 loci for body mass index (BMI), implicating pathways related to neuronal biology. Most GWAS loci represent clusters of common, noncoding variants from which pinpointing causal gene…

other 2018
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-018-0050-y

In the published version of this paper, the name of author Emanuele Di Angelantonio was misspelled. This error has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

other 2017
JAMA oncology ·doi:10.1001/jamaoncol.2016.5945

IMPORTANCE: The causal direction and magnitude of the association between telomere length and incidence of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases is uncertain owing to the susceptibility of observational studies to confounding and reverse causa…

meta-analysis 2015
Nature ·doi:10.1038/nature14132

Body fat distribution is a heritable trait and a well-established predictor of adverse metabolic outcomes, independent of overall adiposity. To increase our understanding of the genetic basis of body fat distribution and its molecular links…