Interaction between the FTO gene, body mass index and depression: meta-analysis of 13701 individuals

Margarita Rivera¹, Adam E Locke², Tanguy Corre²+35

• ¹Margarita Rivera, PhD, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology II and Institute of Neurosciences, Center for Biomedical Research, University of Granada, Granada, Spain, and MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Kinǵs College London, UK; Adam E. Locke, PhD, Department of Biostatistics and Center for Statistical Genetics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA; Tanguy Corre, PhD, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland; Darina Czamara, PhD, Christiane Wolf, PhD, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany; Ana Ching-Lopez, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Granada, and Institute of Neurosciences Federico Olóriz, Centra de Investigación Biomédica, University of Granada, Spain; Yuri Milaneschi, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center/GGZ in Geest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Stefan Kloiber, MD, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany; Sara Cohen-Woods, PhD, School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; James Rucker, MD, PhD, MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UK; Katherine J. Aitchison, MD, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada; Sven Bergmann, PhD, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland; Dorret I. Boomsma, PhD, Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Nick Craddock, MB, PhD, FMedSci, Department of Psychological Medicine and Neurology, Cardiff University School of Medicine, Henry Wellcome Building, Cardiff, UK; Michael Gill, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Dublin 8, Ireland; Florian Holsboer, MD, PhD, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany; Jouke-Jan Hottenga, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada; Ania Korszun, PhD, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; Zoltan Kutalik, PhD, Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Lausanne, Switzerland; Susanne Lucae, MD, PhD, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany; Wolfgang Maier, MD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany; Ole Mors, MD, PhD, Research Department P, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark; Bertram Müller-Myhsok MD, Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry, Munich, Germany; Michael J. Owen, MB, PhD, FMedSci, MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatry Genetics and Genomics, Department of Psychological Medicine and Neurology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK; Brenda W. J. H. Penninx, PhD, Department of Psychiatry and EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center/GGZ in Geest, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Martin Preisig, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Lausanne University Hospital, 1008 Prilly-Lausanne, Switzerland; John Rice, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri, USA; Marcella Rietschel, MD, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany; Federica Tozzi, MD, Genetics Division, Drug Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline Research and Development, Verona, Italy; Rudolf Uher, MD, PhD, MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UK, and Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Peter Vollenweider, MD, PhD, Gerard Waeber, MD, PhD, Division of Internal Medicine, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland; Gonneke Willemsen, PhD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada; Ian W. Craig, PhD, Anne E. Farmer, MD, MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UK; Cathryn M. Lewis, PhD, MRC Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, and Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, King's College London, UK; Gerome Breen, PhD, Peter McGuffin, MB, PhD, FMedSci, MRC Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London, UK margarita.rivera_sanchez@kcl.ac.uk.+1