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<record><TEI><teiHeader><fileDesc><titleStmt><title xml:lang="en">Novel Approach Identifies SNPs in <italic>SLC2A10</italic> and <italic>KCNK9</italic> with Evidence for Parent-of-Origin Effect on Body Mass Index</title><author><name sortKey="Hoggart, Clive J" sort="Hoggart, Clive J" uniqKey="Hoggart C" first="Clive J." last="Hoggart">Clive J. Hoggart</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff1"><addr-line>Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Venturini, Giulia" sort="Venturini, Giulia" uniqKey="Venturini G" first="Giulia" last="Venturini">Giulia Venturini</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Mangino, Massimo" sort="Mangino, Massimo" uniqKey="Mangino M" first="Massimo" last="Mangino">Massimo Mangino</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff3"><addr-line>Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Gomez, Felicia" sort="Gomez, Felicia" uniqKey="Gomez F" first="Felicia" last="Gomez">Felicia Gomez</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff4"><addr-line>Department of Genetics, Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Ascari, Giulia" sort="Ascari, Giulia" uniqKey="Ascari G" first="Giulia" last="Ascari">Giulia Ascari</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Zhao, Jing Hua" sort="Zhao, Jing Hua" uniqKey="Zhao J" first="Jing Hua" last="Zhao">Jing Hua Zhao</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff5"><addr-line>MRC-Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Teumer, Alexander" sort="Teumer, Alexander" uniqKey="Teumer A" first="Alexander" last="Teumer">Alexander Teumer</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff6"><addr-line>Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Winkler, Thomas W" sort="Winkler, Thomas W" uniqKey="Winkler T" first="Thomas W." last="Winkler">Thomas W. Winkler</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff7"><addr-line>Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Tsernikova, Natalia" sort="Tsernikova, Natalia" uniqKey="Tsernikova N" first="Natalia" last="Tšernikova">Natalia Tšernikova</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff8"><addr-line>Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff9"><addr-line>Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Luan, Jian An" sort="Luan, Jian An" uniqKey="Luan J" first="Jian'An" last="Luan">Jian'An Luan</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff5"><addr-line>MRC-Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Mihailov, Evelin" sort="Mihailov, Evelin" uniqKey="Mihailov E" first="Evelin" last="Mihailov">Evelin Mihailov</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff8"><addr-line>Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff10"><addr-line>Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Ehret, Georg B" sort="Ehret, Georg B" uniqKey="Ehret G" first="Georg B." last="Ehret">Georg B. Ehret</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff11"><addr-line>McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Center for Complex Disease Genomics, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff12"><addr-line>Cardiology, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Zhang, Weihua" sort="Zhang, Weihua" uniqKey="Zhang W" first="Weihua" last="Zhang">Weihua Zhang</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff13"><addr-line>Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Lamparter, David" sort="Lamparter, David" uniqKey="Lamparter D" first="David" last="Lamparter">David Lamparter</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff14"><addr-line>Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Esko, T Nu" sort="Esko, T Nu" uniqKey="Esko T" first="T Nu" last="Esko">T Nu Esko</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff15"><addr-line>Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research and Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff16"><addr-line>Metabolism Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff17"><addr-line>Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Mace, Aurelien" sort="Mace, Aurelien" uniqKey="Mace A" first="Aurelien" last="Macé">Aurelien Macé</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff14"><addr-line>Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Rueger, Sina" sort="Rueger, Sina" uniqKey="Rueger S" first="Sina" last="Rüeger">Sina Rüeger</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff14"><addr-line>Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Bochud, Pierre Yves" sort="Bochud, Pierre Yves" uniqKey="Bochud P" first="Pierre-Yves" last="Bochud">Pierre-Yves Bochud</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff18"><addr-line>Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Barcella, Matteo" sort="Barcella, Matteo" uniqKey="Barcella M" first="Matteo" last="Barcella">Matteo Barcella</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff19"><addr-line>Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Dauvilliers, Yves" sort="Dauvilliers, Yves" uniqKey="Dauvilliers Y" first="Yves" last="Dauvilliers">Yves Dauvilliers</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff20"><addr-line>INSERM-U1061, Montpellier, France</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff21"><addr-line>National Reference Network for Orphan Diseases (Narcolepsy and Idiopathic Hypersomnia), Department of Neurology, Gui-de-Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier, France</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Benyamin, Beben" sort="Benyamin, Beben" uniqKey="Benyamin B" first="Beben" last="Benyamin">Beben Benyamin</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff22"><addr-line>Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff23"><addr-line>Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Evans, David M" sort="Evans, David M" uniqKey="Evans D" first="David M." last="Evans">David M. Evans</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff24"><addr-line>MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff25"><addr-line>School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff26"><addr-line>Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Hayward, Caroline" sort="Hayward, Caroline" uniqKey="Hayward C" first="Caroline" last="Hayward">Caroline Hayward</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff27"><addr-line>MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Lopez, Mary F" sort="Lopez, Mary F" uniqKey="Lopez M" first="Mary F." last="Lopez">Mary F. Lopez</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff15"><addr-line>Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research and Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff16"><addr-line>Metabolism Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff28"><addr-line>Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Franke, Lude" sort="Franke, Lude" uniqKey="Franke L" first="Lude" last="Franke">Lude Franke</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff29"><addr-line>Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Russo, Alessia" sort="Russo, Alessia" uniqKey="Russo A" first="Alessia" last="Russo">Alessia Russo</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff30"><addr-line>Genomic Variation in Human Populations and Complex Diseases Unit, Human Genetics Foundation and Dept. of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Heid, Iris M" sort="Heid, Iris M" uniqKey="Heid I" first="Iris M." last="Heid">Iris M. Heid</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff7"><addr-line>Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Salvi, Erika" sort="Salvi, Erika" uniqKey="Salvi E" first="Erika" last="Salvi">Erika Salvi</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff19"><addr-line>Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Vendantam, Sailaja" sort="Vendantam, Sailaja" uniqKey="Vendantam S" first="Sailaja" last="Vendantam">Sailaja Vendantam</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff15"><addr-line>Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research and Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff16"><addr-line>Metabolism Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Arking, Dan E" sort="Arking, Dan E" uniqKey="Arking D" first="Dan E." last="Arking">Dan E. Arking</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff11"><addr-line>McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Center for Complex Disease Genomics, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Boerwinkle, Eric" sort="Boerwinkle, Eric" uniqKey="Boerwinkle E" first="Eric" last="Boerwinkle">Eric Boerwinkle</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff31"><addr-line>Human Genetics Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Chambers, John C" sort="Chambers, John C" uniqKey="Chambers J" first="John C." last="Chambers">John C. Chambers</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff13"><addr-line>Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Fiorito, Giovanni" sort="Fiorito, Giovanni" uniqKey="Fiorito G" first="Giovanni" last="Fiorito">Giovanni Fiorito</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff30"><addr-line>Genomic Variation in Human Populations and Complex Diseases Unit, Human Genetics Foundation and Dept. of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Grallert, Harald" sort="Grallert, Harald" uniqKey="Grallert H" first="Harald" last="Grallert">Harald Grallert</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff32"><addr-line>Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Guarrera, Simonetta" sort="Guarrera, Simonetta" uniqKey="Guarrera S" first="Simonetta" last="Guarrera">Simonetta Guarrera</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff33"><addr-line>Genomic Variation in Human Populations and Complex Diseases Unit, Human Genetics Foundation, Turin, Italy</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Homuth, Georg" sort="Homuth, Georg" uniqKey="Homuth G" first="Georg" last="Homuth">Georg Homuth</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff6"><addr-line>Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Huffman, Jennifer E" sort="Huffman, Jennifer E" uniqKey="Huffman J" first="Jennifer E." last="Huffman">Jennifer E. Huffman</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff27"><addr-line>MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Porteous, David" sort="Porteous, David" uniqKey="Porteous D" first="David" last="Porteous">David Porteous</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff34"><addr-line>Centre for Molecular Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Moradpour, Darius" sort="Moradpour, Darius" uniqKey="Moradpour D" first="Darius" last="Moradpour">Darius Moradpour</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff35"><addr-line>Department of Medicine, Service of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Iranzo, Alex" sort="Iranzo, Alex" uniqKey="Iranzo A" first="Alex" last="Iranzo">Alex Iranzo</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff36"><addr-line>Neurology Service, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Hebebrand, Johannes" sort="Hebebrand, Johannes" uniqKey="Hebebrand J" first="Johannes" last="Hebebrand">Johannes Hebebrand</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff37"><addr-line>Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Kemp, John P" sort="Kemp, John P" uniqKey="Kemp J" first="John P." last="Kemp">John P. Kemp</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff24"><addr-line>MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff25"><addr-line>School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Lammers, Gert J" sort="Lammers, Gert J" uniqKey="Lammers G" first="Gert J." last="Lammers">Gert J. Lammers</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff38"><addr-line>Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff39"><addr-line>Sleep Wake Center SEIN, Heemstede, The Netherlands</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Aubert, Vincent" sort="Aubert, Vincent" uniqKey="Aubert V" first="Vincent" last="Aubert">Vincent Aubert</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff40"><addr-line>Division of Immunology and Allergy, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Heim, Markus H" sort="Heim, Markus H" uniqKey="Heim M" first="Markus H." last="Heim">Markus H. Heim</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff41"><addr-line>Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Martin, Nicholas G" sort="Martin, Nicholas G" uniqKey="Martin N" first="Nicholas G." last="Martin">Nicholas G. Martin</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff23"><addr-line>Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Montgomery, Grant W" sort="Montgomery, Grant W" uniqKey="Montgomery G" first="Grant W." last="Montgomery">Grant W. Montgomery</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff42"><addr-line>Molecular Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Peraita Adrados, Rosa" sort="Peraita Adrados, Rosa" uniqKey="Peraita Adrados R" first="Rosa" last="Peraita-Adrados">Rosa Peraita-Adrados</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff43"><addr-line>Sleep and Epilepsy Unit - Clinical Neurophysiology Department, Gregorio Marañón University Hospital, Madrid, Spain</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Santamaria, Joan" sort="Santamaria, Joan" uniqKey="Santamaria J" first="Joan" last="Santamaria">Joan Santamaria</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff36"><addr-line>Neurology Service, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Negro, Francesco" sort="Negro, Francesco" uniqKey="Negro F" first="Francesco" last="Negro">Francesco Negro</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff44"><addr-line>Service of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Service of Clinical Pathology, Geneva, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Schmidt, Carsten O" sort="Schmidt, Carsten O" uniqKey="Schmidt C" first="Carsten O." last="Schmidt">Carsten O. Schmidt</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff45"><addr-line>Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Scott, Robert A" sort="Scott, Robert A" uniqKey="Scott R" first="Robert A." last="Scott">Robert A. Scott</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff5"><addr-line>MRC-Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Spector, Tim D" sort="Spector, Tim D" uniqKey="Spector T" first="Tim D." last="Spector">Tim D. Spector</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff3"><addr-line>Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Strauch, Konstantin" sort="Strauch, Konstantin" uniqKey="Strauch K" first="Konstantin" last="Strauch">Konstantin Strauch</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff46"><addr-line>Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff47"><addr-line>Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Volzke, Henry" sort="Volzke, Henry" uniqKey="Volzke H" first="Henry" last="Völzke">Henry Völzke</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff45"><addr-line>Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Wareham, Nicholas J" sort="Wareham, Nicholas J" uniqKey="Wareham N" first="Nicholas J." last="Wareham">Nicholas J. Wareham</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff5"><addr-line>MRC-Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Yuan, Wei" sort="Yuan, Wei" uniqKey="Yuan W" first="Wei" last="Yuan">Wei Yuan</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff3"><addr-line>Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Bell, Jordana T" sort="Bell, Jordana T" uniqKey="Bell J" first="Jordana T." last="Bell">Jordana T. Bell</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff3"><addr-line>Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Chakravarti, Aravinda" sort="Chakravarti, Aravinda" uniqKey="Chakravarti A" first="Aravinda" last="Chakravarti">Aravinda Chakravarti</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff11"><addr-line>McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Center for Complex Disease Genomics, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Kooner, Jaspal S" sort="Kooner, Jaspal S" uniqKey="Kooner J" first="Jaspal S." last="Kooner">Jaspal S. Kooner</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff48"><addr-line>Cardiovascular Science, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Peters, Annette" sort="Peters, Annette" uniqKey="Peters A" first="Annette" last="Peters">Annette Peters</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff49"><addr-line>Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff50"><addr-line>Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetes, Neuherberg, Germany</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Matullo, Giuseppe" sort="Matullo, Giuseppe" uniqKey="Matullo G" first="Giuseppe" last="Matullo">Giuseppe Matullo</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff30"><addr-line>Genomic Variation in Human Populations and Complex Diseases Unit, Human Genetics Foundation and Dept. of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Wallaschofski, Henri" sort="Wallaschofski, Henri" uniqKey="Wallaschofski H" first="Henri" last="Wallaschofski">Henri Wallaschofski</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff51"><addr-line>Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Whitfield, John B" sort="Whitfield, John B" uniqKey="Whitfield J" first="John B." last="Whitfield">John B. 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F." last="Loos">Ruth J. F. Loos</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff5"><addr-line>MRC-Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff64"><addr-line>The Charles Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff65"><addr-line>The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff66"><addr-line>The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author><author><name sortKey="Kutalik, Zoltan" sort="Kutalik, Zoltan" uniqKey="Kutalik Z" first="Zoltán" last="Kutalik">Zoltán Kutalik</name><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff2"><addr-line>Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff14"><addr-line>Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation><affiliation><nlm:aff id="aff52"><addr-line>Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></nlm:aff></affiliation></author></analytic><series><title level="j">PLoS Genetics</title><idno type="ISSN">1553-7390</idno><idno type="eISSN">1553-7404</idno><imprint><date when="2014">2014</date></imprint></series></biblStruct></sourceDesc></fileDesc><profileDesc><textClass></textClass></profileDesc></teiHeader><front><div type="abstract" xml:lang="en"><p>The phenotypic effect of some single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) depends on their parental origin. We present a novel approach to detect parent-of-origin effects (POEs) in genome-wide genotype data of unrelated individuals. The method exploits increased phenotypic variance in the heterozygous genotype group relative to the homozygous groups. We applied the method to >56,000 unrelated individuals to search for POEs influencing body mass index (BMI). Six lead SNPs were carried forward for replication in five family-based studies (of ∼4,000 trios). Two SNPs replicated: the paternal rs2471083-C allele (located near the imprinted <italic>KCNK9</italic> gene) and the paternal rs3091869-T allele (located near the <italic>SLC2A10</italic> gene) increased BMI equally (beta = 0.11 (SD), P<0.0027) compared to the respective maternal alleles. Real-time PCR experiments of lymphoblastoid cell lines from the CEPH families showed that expression of both genes was dependent on parental origin of the SNPs alleles (P<0.01). 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contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Peters</surname><given-names>Annette</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff49"><sup>49</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff50"><sup>50</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Matullo</surname><given-names>Giuseppe</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff30"><sup>30</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Wallaschofski</surname><given-names>Henri</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff51"><sup>51</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Whitfield</surname><given-names>John B.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff23"><sup>23</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Paccaud</surname><given-names>Fred</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff52"><sup>52</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Vollenweider</surname><given-names>Peter</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff53"><sup>53</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bergmann</surname><given-names>Sven</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff14"><sup>14</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Beckmann</surname><given-names>Jacques S.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff14"><sup>14</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Tafti</surname><given-names>Mehdi</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff54"><sup>54</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff55"><sup>55</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Hastie</surname><given-names>Nicholas D.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff27"><sup>27</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Cusi</surname><given-names>Daniele</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff19"><sup>19</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Bochud</surname><given-names>Murielle</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff52"><sup>52</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Frayling</surname><given-names>Timothy M.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff56"><sup>56</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Metspalu</surname><given-names>Andres</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff8"><sup>8</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff9"><sup>9</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff10"><sup>10</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Jarvelin</surname><given-names>Marjo-Riitta</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff57"><sup>57</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff58"><sup>58</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff59"><sup>59</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff60"><sup>60</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff61"><sup>61</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Scherag</surname><given-names>André</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff62"><sup>62</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff63"><sup>63</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Smith</surname><given-names>George Davey</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff24"><sup>24</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff25"><sup>25</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Borecki</surname><given-names>Ingrid B.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff4"><sup>4</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rousson</surname><given-names>Valentin</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff52"><sup>52</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Hirschhorn</surname><given-names>Joel N.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff15"><sup>15</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff16"><sup>16</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff17"><sup>17</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Rivolta</surname><given-names>Carlo</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Loos</surname><given-names>Ruth J. F.</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff5"><sup>5</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff64"><sup>64</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff65"><sup>65</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff66"><sup>66</sup></xref></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><name><surname>Kutalik</surname><given-names>Zoltán</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"><sup>2</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff14"><sup>14</sup></xref><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff52"><sup>52</sup></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><label>1</label><addr-line>Department of Genomics of Common Disease, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff2"><label>2</label><addr-line>Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff3"><label>3</label><addr-line>Department of Twin Research & Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff4"><label>4</label><addr-line>Department of Genetics, Division of Statistical Genomics, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff5"><label>5</label><addr-line>MRC-Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff6"><label>6</label><addr-line>Interfaculty Institute for Genetics and Functional Genomics, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff7"><label>7</label><addr-line>Department of Genetic Epidemiology, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff8"><label>8</label><addr-line>Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff9"><label>9</label><addr-line>Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff10"><label>10</label><addr-line>Estonian Biocentre, Tartu, Estonia</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff11"><label>11</label><addr-line>McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Center for Complex Disease Genomics, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff12"><label>12</label><addr-line>Cardiology, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff13"><label>13</label><addr-line>Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff14"><label>14</label><addr-line>Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff15"><label>15</label><addr-line>Center for Basic and Translational Obesity Research and Divisions of Endocrinology and Genetics, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff16"><label>16</label><addr-line>Metabolism Initiative and Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff17"><label>17</label><addr-line>Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff18"><label>18</label><addr-line>Infectious Diseases Service, Department of Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff19"><label>19</label><addr-line>Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff20"><label>20</label><addr-line>INSERM-U1061, Montpellier, France</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff21"><label>21</label><addr-line>National Reference Network for Orphan Diseases (Narcolepsy and Idiopathic Hypersomnia), Department of Neurology, Gui-de-Chauliac Hospital, Montpellier, France</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff22"><label>22</label><addr-line>Queensland Brain Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff23"><label>23</label><addr-line>Genetic Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff24"><label>24</label><addr-line>MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff25"><label>25</label><addr-line>School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff26"><label>26</label><addr-line>Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff27"><label>27</label><addr-line>MRC Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff28"><label>28</label><addr-line>Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff29"><label>29</label><addr-line>Department of Genetics, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff30"><label>30</label><addr-line>Genomic Variation in Human Populations and Complex Diseases Unit, Human Genetics Foundation and Dept. of Medical Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff31"><label>31</label><addr-line>Human Genetics Center, Houston, Texas, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff32"><label>32</label><addr-line>Research Unit Molecular Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff33"><label>33</label><addr-line>Genomic Variation in Human Populations and Complex Diseases Unit, Human Genetics Foundation, Turin, Italy</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff34"><label>34</label><addr-line>Centre for Molecular Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff35"><label>35</label><addr-line>Department of Medicine, Service of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff36"><label>36</label><addr-line>Neurology Service, Hospital Clinic, Barcelona, Spain</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff37"><label>37</label><addr-line>Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff38"><label>38</label><addr-line>Department of Neurology, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff39"><label>39</label><addr-line>Sleep Wake Center SEIN, Heemstede, The Netherlands</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff40"><label>40</label><addr-line>Division of Immunology and Allergy, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff41"><label>41</label><addr-line>Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff42"><label>42</label><addr-line>Molecular Epidemiology, QIMR Berghofer Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff43"><label>43</label><addr-line>Sleep and Epilepsy Unit - Clinical Neurophysiology Department, Gregorio Marañón University Hospital, Madrid, Spain</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff44"><label>44</label><addr-line>Service of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Service of Clinical Pathology, Geneva, Switzerland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff45"><label>45</label><addr-line>Institute for Community Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff46"><label>46</label><addr-line>Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff47"><label>47</label><addr-line>Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Chair of Genetic Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff48"><label>48</label><addr-line>Cardiovascular Science, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff49"><label>49</label><addr-line>Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München, Neuherberg, Germany</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff50"><label>50</label><addr-line>Deutsches Zentrum für Diabetes, Neuherberg, Germany</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff51"><label>51</label><addr-line>Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff52"><label>52</label><addr-line>Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (IUMSP), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff53"><label>53</label><addr-line>Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff54"><label>54</label><addr-line>Center for Integrative Genomics (CIG), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff55"><label>55</label><addr-line>Center for Investigation and Research in Sleep (CIRS), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne, Switzerland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff56"><label>56</label><addr-line>University of Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff57"><label>57</label><addr-line>Institute of Health Sciences, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff58"><label>58</label><addr-line>Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff59"><label>59</label><addr-line>Department of Children and Young People and Families, National Institute for Health and Welfare, Oulu, Finland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff60"><label>60</label><addr-line>Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, MRC-HPA Centre for Environment and Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff61"><label>61</label><addr-line>Unit of Primary Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff62"><label>62</label><addr-line>Institute for Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, University Hospital of Essen, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff63"><label>63</label><addr-line>Clinical Epidemiology, Integrated Research and Treatment Center, Center for Sepsis Control and Care (CSCC), Jena University Hospital, Jena, Germany</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff64"><label>64</label><addr-line>The Charles Bronfman Institute of Personalized Medicine, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff65"><label>65</label><addr-line>The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America</addr-line></aff><aff id="aff66"><label>66</label><addr-line>The Genetics of Obesity and Related Metabolic Traits Program, The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America</addr-line></aff><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="editor"><name><surname>Visscher</surname><given-names>Peter M.</given-names></name><role>Editor</role><xref ref-type="aff" rid="edit1"></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="edit1"><addr-line>The University of Queensland, Australia</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail: <email>zoltan.kutalik@unil.ch</email></corresp><fn fn-type="conflict"><p>Prof. Dauvilliers has received speaker's honoraria and support for travel to meetings from UCB Pharma, JAZZ and Bioprojet. Prof. Dauvilliers participated in advisory boards of UCB Pharma, JAZZ and Bioprojet. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.</p></fn><fn fn-type="con"><p>Conceived and designed the experiments: CJH JCC NJW JSK JNH CR RJFL ZK. Performed the experiments: GV GA GBE BB JCC JSK. Analyzed the data: CJH GV MM FG JHZ AT TWW NT JL EM GBE WZ DL TE AMa SR PYB BB DME CH MFL LF AR SV GF SG JPK GM SB MT MBo IBB VR JNH CR ZK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GBE MBa YD CH ES DEA EB JCC HG GH JEH DP DM AI GJL VA MHH NGM RPA JS FN COS RAS HV WY JTB AC JSK AP HW JBW MT NDH DC TMF GDS IBB CR IMH HG JH GWM TDS KS NJW FP PV JSB AMe MRJ AS RJFL. Wrote the paper: CJH FG ZK.</p></fn><fn id="fn1" fn-type="other"><p>¶ Membership of Generation Scotland Consortium, The LifeLines Cohort study, and The GIANT Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.</p></fn></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="collection"><month>7</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>31</day><month>7</month><year>2014</year></pub-date><volume>10</volume><issue>7</issue><elocation-id>e1004508</elocation-id><history><date date-type="received"><day>5</day><month>2</month><year>2014</year></date><date date-type="accepted"><day>14</day><month>5</month><year>2014</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>© 2014 Hoggart et al</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><copyright-holder>Hoggart et al</copyright-holder><license xlink:href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"><license-p>This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>The phenotypic effect of some single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) depends on their parental origin. We present a novel approach to detect parent-of-origin effects (POEs) in genome-wide genotype data of unrelated individuals. The method exploits increased phenotypic variance in the heterozygous genotype group relative to the homozygous groups. We applied the method to >56,000 unrelated individuals to search for POEs influencing body mass index (BMI). Six lead SNPs were carried forward for replication in five family-based studies (of ∼4,000 trios). Two SNPs replicated: the paternal rs2471083-C allele (located near the imprinted <italic>KCNK9</italic> gene) and the paternal rs3091869-T allele (located near the <italic>SLC2A10</italic> gene) increased BMI equally (beta = 0.11 (SD), P<0.0027) compared to the respective maternal alleles. Real-time PCR experiments of lymphoblastoid cell lines from the CEPH families showed that expression of both genes was dependent on parental origin of the SNPs alleles (P<0.01). Our scheme opens new opportunities to exploit GWAS data of unrelated individuals to identify POEs and demonstrates that they play an important role in adult obesity.</p></abstract><abstract abstract-type="summary"><title>Author Summary</title><p>Large genetic association studies have revealed many genetic factors influencing common traits, such as body mass index (BMI). These studies assume that the effect of genetic variants is the same regardless of whether they are inherited from the mother or the father. In our study, we have developed a new approach that allows us to investigate variants whose impact depends on their parental origin (parent-of-origin effects), in unrelated samples when the parental origin cannot be inferred. This is feasible because at genetic markers at which such effects occur there is increased variability of the trait among individuals who inherited different genetic codes from their mother and their father compared to individuals who inherited the same genetic code from both parents. We applied this methodology to discover genetic markers with parent-of-origin effects (POEs) on BMI. This resulted in six candidate markers showing strong POE association. We then attempted to replicate the POE effects of these markers in family studies (where one can infer the parental origin of the inherited variants). Two of our candidates showed significant association in the family studies, the paternal and maternal effects of these markers were in the opposite direction.</p></abstract><funding-group><funding-statement>ALSPAC: The UK Medical Research Council, the Wellcome Trust (combined grant ref. 0927310) and the University of Bristol provide core support for ALSPAC. We thank 23andMe for funding the genotyping of the ALSPAC children's sample. Funding to pay the Open Access publication charges for this article was provided by the Wellcome Trust. JPK is funded by a Wellcome Trust grant (WT083431MA). JPK, DME and GDS work in an MRC Unit funded by MC_UU_12013. This publication is the work of the authors and DME will serve as guarantor for the contents of this paper. ARIC: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study is carried out as a collaborative study supported by National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute contracts (HHSN268201100005C, HHSN268201100006C, HHSN268201100007C, HHSN268201100008C, HHSN268201100009C, HHSN268201100010C, HHSN268201100011C, and HHSN268201100012C), R01HL087641, R01HL59367 and R01HL086694; National Human Genome Research Institute contract U01HG004402; and National Institutes of Health contract HHSN268200625226C. Infrastructure was partly supported by Grant Number UL1RR025005, a component of the National Institutes of Health and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. CoLaus: The CoLaus study was supported by research grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no: 33CSCO-122661) from GlaxoSmithKline and the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of Lausanne, Switzerland. ZK received financial support from the Leenaards Foundation and the Swiss National Science Foundation (31003A-143914). EPIC: The EPIC Norfolk diabetes case cohort study is nested within the EPIC Norfolk Study, which is supported by programme grants from the Medical Research Council, and Cancer Research UK and with additional support from the European Union, Stroke Association, British Heart Foundation, Research into Ageing, Department of Health, The Wellcome Trust and the Food Standards Agency. Genotyping was in part supported by the MRC-GSK pilot programme grant. We acknowledge the contribution of the staff and participants of the EPIC-Norfolk Study. EPIC-Italy: Methylation analysis on EPIC-Italy samples was made possible by a grant of the Compagnia di San Paolo (Turin, Italy; GM) and by Regione Piemonte (GM). EGCUT: Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu (EGCUT) received targeted financing from Estonian Government SF0180142s08, Center of Excellence in Genomics (EXCEGEN) and University of Tartu (SP1GVARENG). We acknowledge EGCUT technical personnel, especially Mr V. Soo and S. Smit. Data analyses were carried out in part in the High Performance Computing Center of University of Tartu. EU-NN: Support for the EU-NN research was in part provided by the French Ministry of Research and Higher Education, Project Agence Nationale de la Recherche-07-MRAR (France). FamHS: This work was partly supported by NIDDK grant R01DK8925601 (IBB, PI). Fenland: The Fenland Study is funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Medical Research Council (MC_U106179471). We are grateful to all the volunteers for their time and help, and to the General Practitioners and practice staff for assistance with recruitment. We thank the Fenland Study Investigators, Fenland Study Co-ordination team and the Epidemiology Field, Data and Laboratory teams. HYPERGENES: This study was funded by HYPERGENES (FP7 - HEALTH-F4-2007-601 201550); INTEROMICS (MIUR - CNR Italian Flagship Project). Carlo Rivolta was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant 310030_138346) and the Gebert Rüf Foundation, Switzerland (Rare Diseases - New Technologies grant). KORA S3/KORA S4: The KORA research platform (KORA, Cooperative Research in the Region of Augsburg) was initiated and financed by the Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, which is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and by the State of Bavaria. Furthermore, KORA research was supported within the Munich Center of Health Sciences (MC Health), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, as part of LMUinnovativ. Part of this project was supported by BMBF grant number 01GS0823, by the German National Genome Research Network (NGFNPlus, project number 01GS0823 and project number 01GS0834) and through additional funds from the University of Ulm. LifeLines: The LifeLines Cohort Study, and generation and management of GWAS genotype data for the LifeLines Cohort Study is supported by the Netherlands Organization of Scientific Research NWO (grant 175.010.2007.006), the Economic Structure Enhancing Fund (FES) of the Dutch government, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Sports, the Northern Netherlands Collaboration of Provinces (SNN), the Province of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, the University of Groningen, Dutch Kidney Foundation and Dutch Diabetes Research Foundation. LOLIPOP: The LOLIPOP study is supported by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, the NIHR Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit of Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust,the British Heart Foundation (SP/04/002), the Medical Research Council (G0601966,G0700931), the Wellcome Trust (084723/Z/08/Z) the NIHR (RP-PG-0407-10371),European Union FP7 (EpiMigrant, 279143)and Action on Hearing Loss (G51). We thank the participants and research staff who made the study possible. NFBC66: NFBC1966 received financial support from the Academy of Finland (project grants 104781, 120315, 129269, 1114194, 24300796, Center of Excellence in Complex Disease Genetics and SALVE), University Hospital Oulu, Biocenter, University of Oulu, Finland (75617), NHLBI grant 5R01HL087679-02 through the STAMPEED program (1RL1MH083268-01), NIH/NIMH (5R01MH63706:02), ENGAGE project and grant agreement HEALTH-F4-2007-201413, and the Medical Research Council, UK (G0500539, G0600705, G1002319, PrevMetSyn/SALVE,). The DNA extractions, sample quality controls, biobank upkeep and aliquoting was performed in the National Public Health Institute, Biomedicum Helsinki, Finland and supported financially by the Academy of Finland and Biocentrum Helsinki. We thank the late Professor Paula Rantakallio (launch of NFBC1966), and Ms Outi Tornwall and Ms Minttu Jussila (DNA biobanking). The authors would like to acknowledge the contribution of the late Academian of Science Leena Peltonen. QIMR: We acknowledge funding from the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC grants 241944, 389875, 389891, 389892, 389938, 442915, 442981, 496739, 496688, 552485 and 613672), the U.S. National Institute of Health (grants AA07535, AA10248, AA014041, AA13320, AA13321, AA13326 and DA12854) and the Australian Research Council (ARC grant DP0770096). SHIP/SHIP-TREND: SHIP is part of the Community Medicine Research net of the University of Greifswald, Germany, which is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grants no. 01ZZ9603, 01ZZ0103, and 01ZZ0403), the Ministry of Cultural Affairs as well as the Social Ministry of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania, and the network ‘Greifswald Approach to Individualized Medicine (GANI_MED)’ funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant 1036 03IS2061A). Genome-wide data have been supported by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant no. 03ZIK012) and a joint grant from Siemens Healthcare, Erlangen, Germany and the Federal State of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. The University of Greifswald is a member of the ‘Center of Knowledge Interchange’ program of the Siemens AG and the Caché Campus program of the InterSystems GmbH. TwinsUK: The study was funded by the Wellcome Trust; European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013), ENGAGE project grant agreement (HEALTH-F4-2007–201413). The study also receives support from the Dept of Health via the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre award to Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with King's College London. TDS is an NIHR senior Investigator and is holder of an ERC Advanced Principal Investigator award. Genotyping was performed by The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, support of the National Eye Institute via an NIH/CIDR genotyping project. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.</funding-statement></funding-group><counts><page-count count="12"></page-count></counts></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>Introduction</title><p>The effect of genetic variants on phenotypes may depend upon the parent from whom the variant was inherited <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Kong1" ref-type="bibr">[1]</xref>, <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Rampersaud1" ref-type="bibr">[2]</xref>. Parent-of-origin effects (POEs) may arise through imprinting; mechanisms of which include cytosine methylation and histone deacetylation <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Rampersaud1" ref-type="bibr">[2]</xref>. To date around 50 human genes are known to be imprinted and for most mammalian species less than 1% of the genome is confirmed to be imprinted <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Lawson1" ref-type="bibr">[3]</xref>. One plausible explanation for this phenomenon is the parental conflict hypothesis, whereby both parents would like to maximize the influence of their genome on their offspring <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Guilmatre1" ref-type="bibr">[4]</xref>. Current methods for detecting parent-of-origin effects rely on assigning parental ancestry to the inherited alleles. This is straightforward in linkage studies, which have identified potential POEs on type 2 diabetes, body mass index (BMI) <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Dong1" ref-type="bibr">[5]</xref>, <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Lindsay1" ref-type="bibr">[6]</xref>, and alcohol intake <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Paterson1" ref-type="bibr">[7]</xref>–<xref rid="pgen.1004508-Strauch1" ref-type="bibr">[9]</xref>. However, only a very few of these findings have been replicated and the identified linkage peaks often span large chromosomal regions harbouring hundreds of genes, hence the causal gene or regulatory sequence is unknown. A notable exception is the work of Kong <italic>et al</italic><xref rid="pgen.1004508-Kong1" ref-type="bibr">[1]</xref> who inferred parental origin through genealogy information and long-range phasing to subsequently test for POEs. This study identified six SNPs, four associated with risk of type 2 diabetes and the other two associated with each of breast cancer and basal-cell carcinoma.</p><p>Genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of unrelated individuals have very precisely identified a large number of genetic loci harbouring SNPs whose (alternative) allele counts associate with common traits. Since GWASs predominantly include unrelated individuals, the parental origin of the alleles cannot be determined, hence genetic effects influenced by the parental origin of the alleles are typically not considered. Here we present a novel approach that is able to detect POEs using genome-wide genotype data of unrelated individuals. We chose BMI as our target trait, due to previous findings <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Dong1" ref-type="bibr">[5]</xref>, <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Lindsay1" ref-type="bibr">[6]</xref> and the large available sample size. We report the discovery of two novel loci affecting BMI in a manner dependent on the parent-of-origin of the transmitted alleles.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>Results</title><p>We applied our POE test, which compares the phenotypic variance of the heterozygous genotype group to the variance observed in the homozygous groups, to all SNPs genome-wide. The test, which is applicable to unrelated individuals, assumes that an increased variance in the heterozygous group arises because the heterozygous group consists of two subgroups (paternal reference allele/maternal alternative allele and maternal reference allele/paternal alternative allele) each with different means (see <xref ref-type="fig" rid="pgen-1004508-g001">Figure 1</xref>). Differences in phenotypic variance were tested using the Brown-Forsythe test, modified to test the mean absolute deviations from the median in the heterozygous and homozygous groups (see Materials and Methods for details). We applied this test to BMI values (corrected for age and age-squared), separately in men and women, in 15 studies, totalling up to 56,092 individuals (detailed description of the cohorts can be found in <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pgen.1004508.s006">Tables S1</xref>–<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pgen.1004508.s008">S3</xref>), 13 of which participated in previous meta-analyses of the GIANT consortium <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Speliotes1" ref-type="bibr">[10]</xref>. In total 2,673,768 HapMap imputed and genotyped SNPs were tested. For each locus, a lead SNP (with the strongest POE association) was identified; other markers within 1 Mb or in LD (r<sup>2</sup>>0.1) were excluded from further investigations. Sex-specific association summary statistics were then meta-analysed. No sex specific difference in effects were observed, therefore all reported results are sex-combined.</p><fig id="pgen-1004508-g001" orientation="portrait" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pgen.1004508.g001</object-id><label>Figure 1</label><caption><title>Explanation of the POE test.</title><p>Top panel illustrates the phenotype distributions in the four genotype groups that would be observed if the parent-of-origin of the alleles were known. Bottom panel shows how these distributions change if the parent-of-origin is unobserved. The resulting heterozygous group will have increased variance due to its heterogeneity. This example describes a scenario we observe for the two replicated hits, namely that the paternal- and maternal effects are of the same size, but opposite in direction (<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e001.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>). Therefore the average phenotype in the B/B group is the same as in the A/A group, as the paternal and maternal B allele effects cancel each other out. In the A/B group there are two subpopulations: the A-pat/B-mat group with phenotypic mean of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e002.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> and the A-mat/B-pat group with <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e003.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> mean. Thus, the two subpopulations combined also have zero mean, but increased variance.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.g001"></graphic></fig><p>Our criteria to select SNPs to take forward to the replication stage resulted in the selection of six independent SNPs: four lead SNPs with POE P-value <5×10<sup>−6</sup> and three SNPs in imprinted regions with P<5×10<sup>−4</sup> (see Fig S1 for QQ-plot), one SNP fulfilled both criteria. See <xref ref-type="table" rid="pgen-1004508-t001">Table 1</xref> for details of these results and Materials and Methods for details of the applied selection methods. These six SNPs were carried forward to the replication stage.</p><table-wrap id="pgen-1004508-t001" orientation="portrait" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pgen.1004508.t001</object-id><label>Table 1</label><caption><title>Discovery POE association results for the six SNPs selected for replication.</title></caption><alternatives><graphic id="pgen-1004508-t001-1" xlink:href="pgen.1004508.t001"></graphic><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><colgroup span="1"><col align="left" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col></colgroup><thead><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">SNP</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Chr</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">position (B36)</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Gene (distance in kb)</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">MAF</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">N (AA+BB)</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">N (AB)</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">P-value (POE)</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">P-value (main)</td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td colspan="9" align="left" rowspan="1"><bold>Genome-wide (P<5e-6)</bold></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">rs155570</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">59778667</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">AC007131.1(419)</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.2</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">32643</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">15232</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.12E-06</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.70E-03</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>rs2471083</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>8</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>140588522</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>KCNK9(105)</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>0.27</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>33885</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>22132</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>9.34E-07</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>8.60E-01</italic></bold></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">rs1345919</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">15</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">31961131</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">AVEN(0)</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.22</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">36850</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">19142</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4.90E-06</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">5.15E-01</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>rs3091869</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>20</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>44859324</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>SLC2A10(61)</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>0.44</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>23891</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>23143</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>4.70E-06</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>3.93E-02</italic></bold></td></tr><tr><td colspan="9" align="left" rowspan="1"><bold>Imprinted regions (P<5e-4)</bold></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">rs1398940</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">90156206</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">FAM13A(0)</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.39</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">25173</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">22737</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4.50E-04</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">5.86E-01</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">rs2471083</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">8</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">140588522</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">KCNK9(105)</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.27</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">33885</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">22132</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">9.34E-07</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">8.60E-01</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">rs6500550</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">16</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3686241</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">TRAP1(0)</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.31</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">27302</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">20188</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.69E-04</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">8.44E-03</td></tr></tbody></table></alternatives><table-wrap-foot><fn id="nt101"><label></label><p>SNP matching any of the following two selection criteria were retained: (1) All lead SNPs with POE P-value below 5×10<sup>−6</sup>. (2) All lead SNPs falling in previously reported imprinted regions with POE P-value <5×10<sup>−4</sup>. Note that one SNP is listed twice as it met both criteria. Chr: chromosome, Gene: nearest gene, MAF: minor allele frequency, N (AA+BB): homozygous sample size, N (AB): heterozygous sample size, P-value (main): main effect association P-value in Speliotes <italic>et al</italic>. <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Speliotes1" ref-type="bibr">[10]</xref>. The parent of origin P-value, “P-value (POE)”, is the Brown-Forsythe test P-value. SNPs marked in bold are those which replicated in the family studies, see <xref ref-type="table" rid="pgen-1004508-t002">Table 2</xref>.</p></fn></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap><sec id="s2a"><title>Replication in family-based studies</title><p>The replication stage utilised five family-based studies (see <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pgen.1004508.s006">Tables S1</xref>–<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pgen.1004508.s008">S3</xref>) to test for parent-of-origin effects at the six selected SNPs. Only heterozygous individuals are informative when testing for parent-of-origin effects; the number of heterozygous individuals for each of the tested SNPs ranged from 1,122 to 4,128 (see <xref ref-type="table" rid="pgen-1004508-t002">Table 2</xref> and <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pgen.1004508.s009">Table S4</xref>). A simplified parental asymmetry test (PAT, see Materials and Methods) was applied and SNPs successfully replicated if their PAT P-values were below 0.0083 (Bonferroni corrected significance threshold for family-wise error of 0.05 with six tests). Two of these SNPs, rs2471083 [T/C] (GWAS discovery BMI variance (het vs. hom): 1.058 <italic>vs</italic> 0.963, <italic>P<sub>POE</sub></italic> = 9.34×10<sup>−7</sup>; replication PAT <italic>P</italic> = 0.00264) and rs3091869 [T/C] (GWAS discovery BMI variance (het vs. hom): 1.046 <italic>vs</italic> 0.957, <italic>P<sub>POE</sub></italic> = 4.7×10<sup>−6</sup>; replication PAT <italic>P</italic> = 0.00245) successfully replicated. In particular, we found that heterozygous individuals who carry the rs2471083-C allele paternally have 0.11 (SD unit) higher BMI on average than those carrying the C-allele maternally (P = 0.00264). Heterozygous carriers of the paternal rs3091869-C allele have 0.11 (SD unit) lower BMI on average than those carrying the maternal C-allele (P = 0.00245). <xref ref-type="fig" rid="pgen-1004508-g002">Figure 2</xref> shows the locuszoom plots of the POE association P-values for the two replicated loci (<italic>KCNK9</italic> and <italic>SLC2A10</italic>).</p><fig id="pgen-1004508-g002" orientation="portrait" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pgen.1004508.g002</object-id><label>Figure 2</label><caption><title>Local association plots.</title><p>Panels show the local POE association P-values for the <italic>KCNK9</italic> (left panel) and <italic>SLC2A10</italic> (right panel) loci.</p></caption><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.g002"></graphic></fig><table-wrap id="pgen-1004508-t002" orientation="portrait" position="float"><object-id pub-id-type="doi">10.1371/journal.pgen.1004508.t002</object-id><label>Table 2</label><caption><title>Replication of the 6 discovery SNPs in trios (or parent-offspring pairs).</title></caption><alternatives><graphic id="pgen-1004508-t002-2" xlink:href="pgen.1004508.t002"></graphic><table frame="hsides" rules="groups"><colgroup span="1"><col align="left" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col><col align="center" span="1"></col></colgroup><thead><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">SNP</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Coded allele</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">Other allele</td><td colspan="5" align="left" rowspan="1">beta (coded paternal) - beta (coded maternal)</td><td colspan="5" align="left" rowspan="1">P-value for beta difference</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">beta meta</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">P meta</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">N meta</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">QIMR</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">FAMHS</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">FHS</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">ALSPAC</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">GS</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">QIMR</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">FAMHS</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">FHS</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">ALSPAC</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">GS</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"></td></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">rs155570</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">G</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">A</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.218</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.033</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.098</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.23</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.136</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">5.82E-03</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">7.97E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.72E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.43E-02</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.32E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.079</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">5.57E-02</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1646∶1093</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">rs1345919</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">A</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">T</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.17</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.167</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.098</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.032</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.006</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3.72E-02</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.06E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.56E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">7.15E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">9.54E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.03</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4.46E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1231∶1696</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">rs1398940</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">G</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">A</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.104</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.033</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.098</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.07</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.008</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.41E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">7.57E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">9.50E-02</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.70E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">9.30E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.038</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.45E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1984∶2144</td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>rs2471083</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>C</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>T</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>0.012</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>0.064</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>0.24</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>0.007</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>0.135</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>8.81E-01</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>5.62E-01</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>1.48E-04</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>9.31E-01</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>1.89E-01</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>0.112</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>2.64E-03</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>1453∶1959</italic></bold></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>rs3091869</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>C</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>T</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>−0.107</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>−0.152</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>−0.117</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>−0.062</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>−0.199</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>1.19E-01</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>1.29E-01</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>2.75E-01</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>3.35E-01</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>5.05E-02</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>−0.112</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>2.45E-03</italic></bold></td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"><bold><italic>1477∶1696</italic></bold></td></tr><tr><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">rs6500550</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">T</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">C</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.053</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.306</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">0.039</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.169</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.03</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">4.64E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">3.14E-03</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">5.79E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">2.22E-02</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">7.29E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">−0.057</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1.08E-01</td><td align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1">1952∶1484</td></tr></tbody></table></alternatives><table-wrap-foot><fn id="nt102"><label></label><p>For each target SNP, in each family we searched for trios (or parent-offspring pairs) with heterozygous offspring and determined the parent of origin of the alleles (whenever possible). From each family at most one heterozygous offspring with known parental origin was then collected and grouped according to the parental origin of the alleles. The equality of phenotypic means in the two groups was tested using a Student t-test (“P-value for beta difference column”). The difference between the phenotypic means were meta-analysed using inverse-variance weighting. Table notations: “beta meta” and “P meta”: meta-analysis estimate of beta (coded paternal) - beta (coded maternal) effect size differences and the corresponding P-value, “N meta”: total number of heterozygous offspring with (coded-maternal/other-paternal), (coded-paternal/other-maternal) genotypes, respectively.</p></fn></table-wrap-foot></table-wrap></sec><sec id="s2b"><title>Impact of the discovered variants</title><p>By combining the effect difference estimates <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e004.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> from the family-based studies and the marginal association effect sizes <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e005.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> from the largest-to-date meta-analytic study on BMI <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Speliotes1" ref-type="bibr">[10]</xref>, we estimated the effects of the maternal and paternal alleles. For both rs2471083-C and rs3091869-T we obtained <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e006.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e007.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>. Using these effect sizes and the population frequency of these SNPs, we calculated the explained variance of these SNPs (if their parent of origin is known) to be 0.24% and 0.30% for rs2471083 and rs3091869, respectively. These effects are comparable to that of the strongest BMI-associated variant in the <italic>FTO</italic> gene (0.34%) <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Speliotes1" ref-type="bibr">[10]</xref>.</p><p>Notably, rs2471083 is located 105 kb upstream of the imprinted gene <italic>KCNK9</italic>. Mutations in this potassium channel gene cause Birk-Barel syndrome, a maternally transmitted syndrome of mental retardation, hypotonia, and unique dysmorphism, resulting from genomic-imprinting <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Barel1" ref-type="bibr">[11]</xref>. SNPs within 2 kb have been shown to be associated with HDL cholesterol, adiponectin levels <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Qi1" ref-type="bibr">[12]</xref> and blood pressure <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Jung1" ref-type="bibr">[13]</xref>. Its impact on hypertension is potentially via a mechanism involving aldosterone, the concentration of which correlates strongly with fat mass. Interestingly, <italic>KCNK9</italic> knock-out mice exhibited more fragmented sleep episodes <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Pang1" ref-type="bibr">[14]</xref> and 7.1%–9.6% increased weight gain (P = 0.02) at 19–20 weeks of age <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Linden1" ref-type="bibr">[15]</xref>. SNP rs3091869 is 61 kb upstream of <italic>SLC2A10</italic>, a glucose transporter involved in arterial morphogenesis. SNPs in low LD (in CEU <italic>r<sup>2</sup></italic> = 0.05) with rs3091869 have been shown to alter body fat distribution <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Lowe1" ref-type="bibr">[16]</xref>.</p><p>We tested these two confirmed SNPs in 705 trios with paediatric (extreme) obese offspring in which parental origin of the alleles was known in up to 255 individuals <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Jarick1" ref-type="bibr">[17]</xref>. No significant effect was observed (see <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pgen.1004508.s010">Table S5</xref>). This could be due to insufficient power, different genetic mechanisms between young individuals and adults or that our association is specific to variations within the range of normal BMI.</p></sec><sec id="s2c"><title>Expression experiments</title><p>We evaluated whether the parent of origin effect of the rs2471083-T and rs3092611-T (proxy for rs3091869-T, r<sup>2</sup> = 0.998) alleles can be observed in the expression levels of their respective genes (<italic>KCNK9</italic> or <italic>SLC2A10</italic>). To test this we carried out quantitative PCR (qPCR) experiments using lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCL) of the CEPH families. These cell lines have been used extensively to identify imprinted genes <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Morcos1" ref-type="bibr">[18]</xref>, <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Pollard1" ref-type="bibr">[19]</xref>. Using the available trio data we could infer the parental origin of the alleles of rs2471083 and rs3092611 in 33 (9 maternal T alleles, 24 paternal T alleles) and 24 (16 maternal T alleles, 8 paternal T alleles) individuals respectively (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pgen.1004508.s012">Table S7</xref>). We performed between 2 and 10 technical replicates per individual (mean of 7.75) and samples with high coefficient of variation (>5%) were discarded in order to ensure robustness. After quality control, 124 expression values from 23 (mat:pat = 4∶19) samples for <italic>KCNK9</italic> and 240 expression values from 24 (mat:pat = 16∶8) for <italic>SLC2A10</italic> were available for analysis. We fitted a linear mixed model to test for association between expression levels (Ct values) and allelic origin. The paternal T allele of rs2471083 was associated with lower <italic>KCNK9</italic> expression levels (+1.08 [SD unit] Ct values, P = 0.0096), and the paternal T allele of rs3092611 was associated with higher <italic>SLC2A10</italic> expression values (−1.09 [SD unit] Ct values, P = 0.0023). To ensure there was no systematic bias in our experiments giving rise to spurious POE associations we repeated the qPCR experiments for two housekeeping genes <italic>GAPDH</italic> and <italic>HRPT1</italic>. Both analyses gave non-significant POE P-values (P>0.3).</p></sec><sec id="s2d"><title>Methylation lookups</title><p>POEs can be driven by differences between inherited paternal and maternal methylation. To explore whether the observed parent-of-origin effects at our discovered SNPs were driven by differential methylation we tested whether methylation in the regions (Chr8: 140.45–140.65 Mb and Chr20: 45.3–45.55 Mb) was (i) associated with the two respective SNPs (rs2471083, rs3091869) in 262 unrelated individuals from the TwinsUK cohort and (ii) associated with BMI in two independent cohorts: 79 BMI discordant (difference >0.5 SD) monozygotic twin pairs from the TwinsUK cohort and a sample of 412 unrelated individuals from the EPIC-Italy cohort. None of these analyses showed significant association (see Supplemental Data S1, Figures S2, S3 and <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pgen.1004508.s013">Table S8</xref> for further details).</p></sec></sec><sec id="s3"><title>Discussion</title><p>Our novel approach revealed two SNPs, located near the genes <italic>KCNK9</italic> and <italic>SLC2A10</italic>, influencing BMI in a parent-of-origin specific fashion. These loci were the first and fourth most significant genome-wide in our new POE test for unrelated individuals and both showed significant parent-of-origin effects in family studies. Both SNPs exhibit polar overdominance, where homozygous individuals have equal (baseline) phenotypes and heterozygous genotypes confer relative risk/protection, depending on the parental origin. Polar overdominance, has been observed in humans for type2 diabetes <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Kong1" ref-type="bibr">[1]</xref> and BMI <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Wermter1" ref-type="bibr">[20]</xref>, however it is very rare and its molecular mechanism is unknown.</p><p>RT-PCR experiments revealed that gene expression levels of <italic>KCNK9</italic> and <italic>SLC2A10</italic> in LCLs were also influenced in a parent-of-origin manner. The expression of these genes is highest in the brain (although it is also expressed in testis, liver, colon, adrenal gland and kidney; see <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.genecards.org/">http://www.genecards.org/</ext-link>) indicating a potential neuronal involvement. Expression levels of <italic>KCNK9</italic> and <italic>SLC2A10</italic> in living brain cells might have been more informative and robust, however, such information is not available. The applied qPCR method was optimised to ensure that the expression levels measured in LCLs were representative only of the target transcript and amplification efficiency was assessed to be sensitive enough to allow the detection of even small changes in gene expression. Interestingly, rs2471083 alleles, regardless of their parental origin, show marginally significant association (P = 0.03) with <italic>KCNK9</italic> expression levels in the hippocampus (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.broadinstitute.org/gtex/">http://www.broadinstitute.org/gtex/</ext-link>). Our methylation analyses did not reveal any evidence that the POEs were driven by differences in inherited paternal and maternal methylation. Neither of our two SNPs tag common copy number variants (CNVs) (based on the CNV reference data used in Heid <italic>et al</italic>. <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Heid1" ref-type="bibr">[21]</xref>) and we found only one sample (out of 14,315 available in-house, whose BMI Z-score was +1.18) with a 76 kb deletion overlapping rs2471083. Hence, the effect of the two discovered SNPs are unlikely to be driven by CNVs. To check whether the two confirmed SNPs (rs3091869, rs2471083), or SNPs in LD (10 with <italic>r<sup>2</sup></italic>>0.8 in 1000 Genomes EUR population), show regulatory activity, we queried RegulomeDB (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://regulome.stanford.edu">http://regulome.stanford.edu</ext-link>). None of these SNPs were annotated to have more than minimal binding evidence (RegulomeDB score below 4).</p><p>A previous study proposed to detect POE in inbred F<sub>2</sub> mice by a two-component mixture distribution fitting of the heterozygous genotype group and further two components for the homozygous groups <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Cui1" ref-type="bibr">[22]</xref>. This method requires a parametric distribution of the phenotype to be assumed, small violations of this assumption can result in heavily biased parameter estimates. The method we chose is more robust to a wide range of phenotype distributions (due to the underlying Brown-Forsythe test employed), computationally faster (making it attractive for testing millions of SNPs) and applicable to probabilistic genotype calls. Our POE test for unrelated GWAS samples is similar to a test proposed to detect gene-environment interactions <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Yang1" ref-type="bibr">[23]</xref> in that it exploits differences in phenotypic variance to detect a phenomenon not directly measured. Inflated phenotypic variance in the heterozygous group might also be the result of other phenomenon: (i) a phenotype altering effect (be it genetic or environmental) acting only on the heterozygous group; (ii) an overdominant effect combined with a genetic or environmental interaction or non-linear, monotonic phenotype transformation that has different derivatives for low and high trait values; (iii) a large marginal additive effect combined with a (monotonic) transformation for which the second derivative is maximised at the mean phenotype value of the heterozygous group (see Materials and Methods for details). More generally, the combination of the scale on which the phenotype is measured and a strong marginal association with an allelic dosage may give rise to spurious associations using variance tests <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Sun1" ref-type="bibr">[24]</xref>. Recently some evidence has emerged about loci which effect the variance of phenotypes (through impacting environmental plasticity, canalization, developmental stability, etc.) that can be detected via association with phenotypic variability <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Shen1" ref-type="bibr">[25]</xref>. Therefore, the top hits obtained by our POE test may need further prioritisation before proceeding to trio-based confirmation. We recommend the following checks: (a) Exclude SNPs with overdominant effects; (b) For SNPs with low POE P-value, test gene-environment (GxE) interaction (as done in <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Yang1" ref-type="bibr">[23]</xref>) via modelling phenotypic variance as a function of the genotype dosage (coded in additive, recessive or dominant fashion). If this test is more significant than the POE test, it is probably a GxE that is driving the POE association and also as a side effect we will observe significant difference in the variance between the two homozygous groups. (c) If a SNP with low POE P-value has marginal effect on the trait, repeat the POE test for various transformed versions of the phenotype such as log and inverse-normal quantile. If the resulting POE P-values are not robust, give lower priority to the examined SNP.</p><p>For our confirmed SNPs multiple lines of evidence show that the parent-of-origin effects are real, most convincingly clear replication in independent family data of parent-of-origin associations of the hit SNPs with both BMI and gene expression levels. Further, the GWAS discovery associations are very unlikely to be artefacts of the factors discussed above: (i) there is no evidence of overdominant, additive, recessive or dominant effects (the mean BMI values are near identical in the three genotype groups), hence the signals cannot be driven by gene-environment interactions or be an artefact of the scale on which the phenotype is measured (ii) no SNP within 500 kb has any detectable marginal effect on BMI thus the association cannot be driven by haplotype-specific marginal effects <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Shibata1" ref-type="bibr">[26]</xref>; (iii) the phenotypic variances in the two homozygous groups, are almost identical (rs2471083: <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e008.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e009.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e010.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> and rs3091869: <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e011.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e012.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e013.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>); (iv) POE test with log- and inverse-normal quantile transformed BMI values resulted in similar results (<xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pgen.1004508.s011">Table S6</xref>), further reducing the likelihood of an artefact resulting from the scale on which the phenotype is measured <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Sun1" ref-type="bibr">[24]</xref>.</p><p>Some of the negative results of the other SNPs carried forward to the replication phase in the family data could be explained by lack of power. The power to replicate POE associations in family-based studies is dependent on the available number of heterozygous individuals (for details see Supplemental Data S1) and thus increases with minor allele frequency (MAF). Therefore, it is unsurprising that the two SNPs which replicated had relatively high MAF (>27%).</p><p>Linkage studies have identified four regions exerting POE on BMI (10p12, 12q24, 13q32) <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Dong1" ref-type="bibr">[5]</xref> and 2q31 <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Guo1" ref-type="bibr">[27]</xref>). We looked up SNPs in these regions in our genome-wide discovery POE association results. The reported linkage regions showed enrichment for lower than expected POE P-values (see <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pgen.1004508.s004">Figure S4</xref> for regional QQ-plots), however, no SNPs survived Bonferroni correction. We also tried to replicate a SNP in exon 5 of <italic>DLK1</italic> (rs1802710) because this SNP showed polar overdominance for obesity in children <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Wermter1" ref-type="bibr">[20]</xref>, but only a very slight trend (<italic>P</italic> = 0.32) was visible in our study. Previously reported BMI-associated loci <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Speliotes1" ref-type="bibr">[10]</xref> show some enrichment for lower POE P-values (Supplemental Data S1, <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pgen.1004508.s014">Tables S9</xref>, <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pgen.1004508.s015">S10</xref> and <xref ref-type="supplementary-material" rid="pgen.1004508.s005">Figure S5</xref>), however these need to be replicated in family studies.</p><p>Previous work comparing strength of associations of mother-offspring BMI with father-offspring BMI did not reveal intrauterine influence on obesity in children <xref rid="pgen.1004508-DaveySmith1" ref-type="bibr">[28]</xref>. A similar conclusion was reached in a systematic review of seven studies <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Patro1" ref-type="bibr">[29]</xref>, while stronger maternal influence was observed in a recent longitudinal study <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Linabery1" ref-type="bibr">[30]</xref>. The difference in conclusions may be due to that fact that the former studies included predominantly older children than the longitudinal study (0–3.5 years). At early age the diet of the offspring may be more similar to that of the mother than the father (e.g. due to breastfeeding), which might have contributed to the higher mother-offspring BMI similarity found by Linabery <italic>et al.</italic><xref rid="pgen.1004508-Linabery1" ref-type="bibr">[30]</xref>.</p><p>In summary, our findings indicate that POEs may play a role in adult obesity. The two identified SNPs have strong parent-of-origin effect on BMI, close to that of the <italic>FTO</italic>, contributing substantially to the heritability of BMI. Our follow-up experiments demonstrated parent-of-origin specific gene expression modulation, but failed to link methylation activity of these loci to BMI values. Inevitably for newly discovered loci, further studies are warranted to determine how these variations functionally influence obesity in humans. The reliance of our approach on difference in phenotypic variance means that it cannot be extended to binary outcomes. Since there are other phenomena which can give rise to significant POE association, we recommend that top hits from our method are followed up in family studies, where parental origin of alleles can be inferred. In addition, our variance based POE test for GWAS data is naturally much less powerful than actually testing the mean values of the two heterozygous subgroups in trios. However, GWASs of unrelated individuals are several-fold more numerous and typically much larger than studies with a trio design, hence our methodology provides a great advance in parent-of-origin research by providing means to exploit all available GWAS data of unrelated individuals in order to identify parent-of-origin effects on continuous phenotypes.</p></sec><sec sec-type="materials|methods" id="s4"><title>Materials and Methods</title><sec id="s4a"><title>Ethics statement</title><p>All participating studies were approved by the respective institutional Ethics Committees. All study participants gave written consent including for genetic studies.</p></sec><sec id="s4b"><title>Detecting parent of origin effects</title><p>If we denote the alleles of a bi-allelic SNP by “A” (reference) and “B” (alternative) the possible genotypes are A/A, A/B and B/B. Standard GWASs estimate the effect of the alternative allele dosage on the phenotype in question. In this work we are interested in associations in which a phenotype (<italic>y</italic>) is influenced by the alleles of a particular SNP and the effect depends on the parental origin of these alleles. In the presence of a parent-of-origin effect the heterozygous genotype group is split into two subgroups, depending on the parental origin of the A and B alleles. We assume that the phenotype of any individual in the A/A genotype group is modelled by <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e014.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e015.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>is the mean and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e016.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>is an individual level error with mean zero and variance <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e017.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>. If the maternal and paternal effects of the B allele are <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e018.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e019.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, it follows that the phenotype of an individual in the B/B group is <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e020.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> and its variance is <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e021.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>. (Note that as a consequence the maternal and paternal effects of the A allele are <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e022.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e023.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>.) Here we assume <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e024.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>is constant across genotype groups (A/A, A/B and B/B) and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e025.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e026.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> are fixed effects. The effects of violations of these assumptions are covered in the discussion. The phenotype in the heterozygous group is a 50%–50% mixture of two distributions (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pgen-1004508-g001">Fig 1a</xref>): <disp-formula id="pgen.1004508.e027"><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e027.jpg" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"></graphic></disp-formula>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e028.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> is a Bernoulli random variable (with parameter ½), taking values <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e029.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> if the B allele is inherited from the mother and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e030.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> if inherited from the father. The heterozygous phenotype distribution can be simplified to <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e031.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> Since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e032.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e033.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> are independent random variables, the phenotypic variance of the heterozygous genotype group <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e034.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> is<disp-formula id="pgen.1004508.e035"><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e035.jpg" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"></graphic></disp-formula></p><p>If a parent-of-origin effect is present <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e036.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e037.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>are different, thus <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e038.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> is larger than the variance observed in the homozygous groups (<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e039.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>) (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="pgen-1004508-g001">Figure 1</xref>). Therefore, although in regular GWAS data we cannot identify the two subgroups within A/B genotypes, we can detect POE via increased phenotypic variance in the heterozygous group relative to the homozygous groups.</p><p>In the presence of a marginal association a phenotype transformation could alter the genotype group variances and introduce bias into the test <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Sun1" ref-type="bibr">[24]</xref>. For this reason we analysed untransformed age-, age<sup>2</sup>-corrected BMI values (normalised to have zero mean and unit variance) separately for men and women. Standard variance tests (such as the F-test) are, however, sensitive to deviations from the Gaussian distribution.</p><p>Therefore, we used a robust version of the Brown-Forsythe test. Briefly, we first centred the phenotype values (at zero) in each genotype group to avoid inflated variance in the presence of marginal effects in the group of all homozygote individuals. We denote these centred phenotypes by <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e040.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, where <disp-formula id="pgen.1004508.e041"><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e041.jpg" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"></graphic></disp-formula></p><p>Here <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e042.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> stands for the genotype of individual <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e043.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e044.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> represents the median phenotype value in genotype group <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e045.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e046.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> can take the values of AA, AB or BB. We then regress the absolute deviations from the median onto a 0–1 coded genotype group identifier (1 for heterozygous and 0 for homozygous individuals) in order to estimate the POE effect size <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Gastwirth1" ref-type="bibr">[31]</xref>. This regression result in a slope estimate<disp-formula id="pgen.1004508.e047"><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e047.jpg" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"></graphic></disp-formula>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e048.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e049.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>. The corresponding standard error is<disp-formula id="pgen.1004508.e050"><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e050.jpg" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"></graphic></disp-formula>where<disp-formula id="pgen.1004508.e051"><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e051.jpg" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"></graphic></disp-formula></p><p>Finally, the POE P-value is assigned based on the test statistic <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e052.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>. The test was extended to imputed genotype probabilities and implemented in the latest version (v0.98) of the Quicktest software (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www3.unil.ch/wpmu/sgg/quicktest/">http://www3.unil.ch/wpmu/sgg/quicktest/</ext-link>). The robustness of this test to deviations from normality has been studied in <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Ramsey1" ref-type="bibr">[32]</xref> and its power in <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Gastwirth1" ref-type="bibr">[31]</xref>.</p></sec><sec id="s4c"><title>SNP selection strategy</title><p>We applied our POE test genome-wide to all HapMap imputed markers in a set of cohorts and results were combined across cohorts using fixed-effect inverse-variance weighting meta-analysis. SNPs were selected for replication if they met at least one of the following two criteria: (1) POE P-value <5×10<sup>−6</sup> or (2) POE P-value <5×10<sup>−4</sup> and within 500 kb of previously reported imprinted regions according to the Catalogue of Parent of Origin Effects database (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://igc.otago.ac.nz/home.html">http://igc.otago.ac.nz/home.html</ext-link>). At loci which met either criteria, a lead SNP (with the strongest POE association) was identified; other markers within 1 Mb or in LD (<italic>r<sup>2</sup></italic>>0.1) were excluded from further investigations. In total 2,673,768 HapMap imputed and genotyped SNPs were analysed, of which 29,457 were considered as lying in imprinted regions, criterion (2). Using the procedure of Gao <italic>et al</italic>. <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Gao1" ref-type="bibr">[33]</xref> we estimated the effective number of tests considered by each criterion to be ∼1,000,000 and 6,100 respectively, justifying the ∼100 fold drop in the P-value threshold applied to the second criterion.</p></sec><sec id="s4d"><title>Testing in family-based studies</title><p>We tested our findings in family-based studies using a simplified parental asymmetry test <xref rid="pgen.1004508-He1" ref-type="bibr">[34]</xref> (PAT). For each target SNP, in each family we searched for trios (or parent-offspring pairs) with heterozygous offspring and determined the parent of origin of the alleles (whenever possible, i.e. at least one homozygous parent). From each family at most one heterozygous offspring with known parental origin was then collected and grouped according to the parental origin of the alleles. Note that although POE is acting in every genotype group, it can only be detected in the heterozygous group.</p><p>As at the discovery phase, we used sex-, age- and age<sup>2</sup>-corrected BMI residuals as phenotype. The equality of phenotypic means in the two groups was tested using a Student t-test. When significant differences were detected we also estimated the difference between paternal and maternal effect sizes, which is simply the difference between the phenotype averages in the paternal- and maternal- groups.</p></sec><sec id="s4e"><title>Effect size estimation</title><p>In order to estimate paternal <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e053.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>) and maternal (<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e054.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>) effect sizes it is sufficient to know their mean <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e055.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> and their difference <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e056.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>. The difference between paternal and maternal effect alleles can also be derived from GWAS of unrelated individuals. It is easy to see that the test statistic defined as<disp-formula id="pgen.1004508.e057"><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e057.jpg" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"></graphic></disp-formula>gives an unbiased estimate of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e058.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>. Since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e059.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, the variance of T is <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e060.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>. Therefore, the absolute difference in paternal and maternal effects (<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e061.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>) can be estimated if the phenotypic variances in the three genotype groups are known. However, these estimates will be strongly subject to the winner's curse <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Zollner1" ref-type="bibr">[35]</xref>, thus we used the family studies to derive more reliable estimates of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e062.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>. To reduce the effect of differences in the distribution of BMI between the family-based studies, we meta-analysed the difference estimates <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e063.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> from each study in order to obtain a combined estimate of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e064.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>. The average of the maternal- and paternal effects, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e065.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, is the association effect size using a simple additive genetic model, which can be most accurately estimated from the largest-to-date meta-analytic study on BMI <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Speliotes1" ref-type="bibr">[10]</xref> (including ∼250,000 individuals).</p></sec><sec id="s4f"><title>Effect of phenotype transformation in case of marginal association</title><p>If there is an additive marginal genetic effect influencing the trait certain transformations may inflate the phenotypic variance of the heterozygous group. Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e066.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> be the phenotypic mean in the heterozygous group and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e067.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> the marginal effect of the SNP (on the original scale). Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e068.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> denote an S-shaped transformation function of the form <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e069.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> that is applied to the trait.</p><p>In the following we show that for any <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e070.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> value arbitrarily large phenotypic variance inflation can be achieved in the heterozygous group, compared to the two homozygous groups by an appropriate parameter choice for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e071.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>. Using a second order Taylor expansion the variance of the transformed phenotype in the heterozygous group can be estimated by<disp-formula id="pgen.1004508.e072"><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e072.jpg" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"></graphic></disp-formula></p><p>If we assume the phenotype follows a Gaussian distribution <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e073.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> then, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e074.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> simplifies to <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e075.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> and thus<disp-formula id="pgen.1004508.e076"><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e076.jpg" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"></graphic></disp-formula></p><p>Without loss of generality one can assume that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e077.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>. The variance in AA genotype group can be estimated similarly and thus<disp-formula id="pgen.1004508.e078"><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e078.jpg" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"></graphic></disp-formula></p><p>Using the special form of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e079.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, the variance difference can be expressed as<disp-formula id="pgen.1004508.e080"><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e080.jpg" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"></graphic></disp-formula>and since <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e081.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e082.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula><disp-formula id="pgen.1004508.e083"><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e083.jpg" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"></graphic></disp-formula></p><p>It is easy to see that for a fixed <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e084.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula><disp-formula id="pgen.1004508.e085"><graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e085.jpg" position="anchor" orientation="portrait"></graphic></disp-formula></p><p>As <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e086.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e087.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> faster than <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e088.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula>, thus for any effect size <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e089.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> we can find a transformation function <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="pgen.1004508.e090.jpg"></inline-graphic></inline-formula> such that the variance inflation of the heterozygous group exceeds any arbitrary threshold.</p></sec><sec id="s4g"><title>Cell lines, nucleic acids isolation, sequencing and qPCR</title><p>Lymphoblastoid cell lines were derived from peripheral blood leukocytes of 95 members of 11 CEPH families <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Prescott1" ref-type="bibr">[36]</xref> (#102, #884, #1333, #1340, #1341, #1345, #1346, #1347, #1362, #1408, #13292). They were purchased from the Coriell Cell Repository (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://ccr.coriell.org/">http://ccr.coriell.org/</ext-link>), and cultured as previously described <xref rid="pgen.1004508-RioFrio1" ref-type="bibr">[37]</xref>. DNA was extracted by using the QIAamp DNA Mini kit (QIAGEN), and RNA by using the RNeasy Mini kit (QIAGEN), according to the manufacturer's instructions. Primer sequences were designed to amplify a 328-bp region on chromosome 8 that spans the rs2471083 polymorphism (forward primer: <named-content content-type="gene">5′-ACCACAGAAGTCAGTAGACGAG-3′</named-content>; reverse primer: <named-content content-type="gene">5′- GTGACATTGGGAGCATGGGA-3′</named-content>) and a 146-bp region on chromosome 20 that spans the rs3092611 polymorphism (forward primer: <named-content content-type="gene">5′-GCCACCAGTGGTCTGATAGT-3′</named-content>; reverse primer: <named-content content-type="gene">5′- TAACTCGTCATTCTGCCCTGG -3′</named-content>). PCR amplification was performed in a 25 µl reaction using GoTaq polymerase (Promega). After purification of PCR products (ExoSAP-IT, USB), sequencing reactions were carried out by using 1 µl of each of the 3.2 µM sequencing primers and 0.5 µl of BigDye Terminator v1.1 (Applied Biosystems). Following on-column purification (EdgeBio), sequencing products were run on an ABI-3130 XLS sequencer (Applied Biosystem). To synthesize cDNA, 2 µg of total RNA was retrotranscribed using the Superscript III reverse transcriptase (Invitrogen/Life Technologies) according to the manufacturer's instructions and a mix of random hexamers and oligo-dT that facilitate the detection of poorly expressed genes. To validate primers for qPCR, we first performed a series of test amplifications by using a defined range of primer concentrations (50–200 nM). We then loaded 10 µl of each qPCR product on 1% agarose gels to check the specificity of the amplification product, which should correspond to a 113-bp (<italic>KCNK9</italic>) and 148-bp (<italic>SLC2A10</italic>) fragment. To test <italic>KCNK9</italic> and <italic>SLC2A10</italic> PCR efficiency a standard curve made of five serial dilutions of brain and lung cDNA were used, respectively, since the two genes are known to be highly expressed in these organs. We obtained a standard curve slope of −3.49 for <italic>KCNK9</italic> and of −3.37 for <italic>SLC2A10</italic>, corresponding to 94% and 98% PCR efficiency. For more details see Supplemental Data S1.</p></sec><sec id="s4h"><title>Comparing Ct values</title><p>The output of the analysis was threshold cycles (Ct), i.e. the number of cycles at which the fluorescent signal of the reaction crosses a pre-determined threshold value. Since standard quantification methods (including normalization by housekeeping genes) introduce a considerable amount of experimental noise for very lowly expressed genes, raw Ct values were used to perform an absolute quantification of <italic>KCNK9</italic> and <italic>SLC2A10</italic> transcripts. As negative controls, housekeeping genes (<italic>HPRT1</italic>, <italic>GAPDH</italic>) were also tested for parent-origin-effect to exclude the possibility that the observed difference in <italic>KCNK9</italic> and <italic>SLC2A10</italic> expression levels was due to the sample preparation process. Raw Ct values were inverse-normal quantile transformed and a linear mixed model was fitted (using the R function <italic>lmer</italic>) modelling the technical replicates as random effects and parental origin as a fixed effect.</p></sec></sec><sec sec-type="supplementary-material" id="s5"><title>Supporting Information</title><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s001"><label>Figure S1</label><caption><p>QQ-plot of the POE test P-values for SNPs in imprinted regions (left) and for the whole genome (right).</p><p>(PNG)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s001.png"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s002"><label>Figure S2</label><caption><p>Left hand side plots describe SNP-methylation associations (mQTLs), where each point is a methylation probe. X-axis represents their physical position and y-axis the −log10 association P-value with the target SNP, whose location is indicated by the dashed line. Note that rs3092611 was used as a proxy for rs3091869 (r<sup>2</sup> = 0.998). The corresponding QQ-plots appear on the right hand side. Neighbouring methylation probes are strongly correlated therefore expected P-values were computed by estimating the effective number of tests For expected P-values we computed the effective number of tests <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Gao1" ref-type="bibr">[33]</xref>.</p><p>(PNG)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s002.png"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s003"><label>Figure S3</label><caption><p>Left hand side plots describe methylation associations with BMI in MZ twins. Each point is a methylation probe, X-axis represents their physical position and y-axis the −log10 association P-value with BMI. Location of the target SNP is indicated by the dashed line. Note that rs3092611 was used as a proxy for rs3091869 (r<sup>2</sup> = 0.998). The corresponding QQ-plots appear on the right hand side. Neighbouring methylation probes are strongly correlated therefore expected P-values were computed by estimating the effective number of tests For expected P-values we computed the effective number of tests <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Gao1" ref-type="bibr">[33]</xref>.</p><p>(PNG)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s003.png"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s004"><label>Figure S4</label><caption><p>POE association results for previously reported imprinted BMI linkage regions. Second dashed line corresponds to the Benjamini-Hochberg 5% FDR threshold.</p><p>(PNG)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s004.png"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s005"><label>Figure S5</label><caption><p>POE association P-value QQ-plot for the top 58 independent SNPs with marginal BMI-association P-value <10<sup>−5</sup> in Speliotes <italic>et al</italic>. <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Speliotes1" ref-type="bibr">[10]</xref>.</p><p>(PNG)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s005.png"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s006"><label>Table S1</label><caption><p>Description of the BMI distribution in the participating cohorts.</p><p>(XLSX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s006.xlsx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s007"><label>Table S2</label><caption><p>Brief summary of the participating cohorts.</p><p>(XLSX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s007.xlsx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s008"><label>Table S3</label><caption><p>Information on the genotyping methods in the participating cohorts.</p><p>(XLSX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s008.xlsx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s009"><label>Table S4</label><caption><p>Replication of the 6 discovery SNPs in family studies. Extended version of <xref ref-type="table" rid="pgen-1004508-t002">Table 2</xref>.</p><p>(XLSX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s009.xlsx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s010"><label>Table S5</label><caption><p>Parental asymmetry test results for our 6 candidate SNPs in adolescent population.</p><p>(XLSX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s010.xlsx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s011"><label>Table S6</label><caption><p>Analysis of the effect of gender- and age-correction and phenotype transformations on the POE association results.</p><p>(XLSX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s011.xlsx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s012"><label>Table S7</label><caption><p>Genotyping results and parental allele determination for members of the CEPH families.</p><p>(XLSX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s012.xlsx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s013"><label>Table S8</label><caption><p>Association results between methylation- and BMI- differences among MZ twins of the TwinsUK study.</p><p>(XLSX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s013.xlsx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s014"><label>Table S9</label><caption><p>POE association P-values for the 32 SNPs associated with BMI in the largest-to-date meta-analysis <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Speliotes1" ref-type="bibr">[10]</xref>.</p><p>(XLSX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s014.xlsx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s015"><label>Table S10</label><caption><p>POE association P-values for the top 58 independent SNPs with BMI-association P-value <10<sup>−5</sup> in the largest-to-date meta-analysis <xref rid="pgen.1004508-Speliotes1" ref-type="bibr">[10]</xref>.</p><p>(XLSX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s015.xlsx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material><supplementary-material content-type="local-data" id="pgen.1004508.s016"><label>Data S1</label><caption><p>Supporting information contain text on the expression- and methylation analysis, the effective sample size derivation in mother-offspring vs trio studies, POE look-ups for SNPs with marginal BMI association, study descriptions and acknowledgements.</p><p>(DOCX)</p></caption><media xlink:href="pgen.1004508.s016.docx"><caption><p>Click here for additional data file.</p></caption></media></supplementary-material></sec></body><back><ack><p>A full list of acknowledgments can be found in the Supporting Information. We would like to thank Rosanna Pescini-Gobert, for help with the qPCR experiments establishing <italic>KCNK9</italic> and <italic>SLC2A10</italic> expressions. Special thanks to Gerard Weber, Vincent Mooser and Martin Preisig for their kind contribution on behalf of the CoLaus study.</p><p><bold>Members of the Scientific Board of the LifeLines Cohort Study</bold></p><p>P de Bakker, U Bültmann, M Geleijnse, P v.d. Harst, G Koppelman, J G.M. Rosmalen, L van Rossum, H Smidt, M A. Swertz, R P. Stolk</p><p><italic>Collaborators</italic>: Alizadeh B, de Boer R, Boezen HM, Bruinenberg M, Franke L, van der Harst P, Hillege H, van der Klauw M, Navis G, Ormel J, Postma D, Rosmalen J, Slaets J, Snieder H, Stolk R, Wolffenbuttel B, Wijmenga C.</p><p><bold>Members of the Scientific Committee of the Generation Scotland Study</bold></p><p>Jonathan Berg, Douglas Blackwood, Harry Campbell, Jonathan Cavanagh, John Connell, Mike Connor, Sarah Cunningham-Burley, Ian Deary, Anna Dominiczak, Paul Ellis, Bridie FitzPatrick, Ian Ford, Rena Gertz, Antonio Grau, Gill Haddow, Cathy Jackson, Shona Kerr, Robbie Lindsay, Mark McGilchrist, Donald McIntyre, Andrew Morris, Robin Morton, Walter Muir, Graeme Murray, Colin Palmer, Jill Pell, Alastair Philp, David Porteous, Mary Porteous, Rob Procter, Stuart Ralston, David Reid, Richard Sinnott, Blair Smith, David St Clair, Frank Sullivan, Mary Sweetland, Jenny Ure, Graham Watt, Roland Wolf, Alan Wright</p><p><bold>Members of the Genetic Investigation of ANthropometric Traits (GIANT) Consortium</bold></p><p>Sonja I. 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