Results : A novel SNP , downstream from the FAM 120 AOS gene on chromosome 9 , was detected in the meta-analysis of ALSPAC and Raine

Background: Several studies have investigated the effect of known adult body mass index (BMI) associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on BMI in childhood. There has been no genome-wide association study (GWAS) of BMI trajectories over childhood. Methods: We conducted a GWAS meta-analysis of BMI trajectories from 1 to 17 years of age in 9377 children (77 967 measurements) from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) and the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort (Raine) Study. Genome-wide significant loci were examined in a further 3918 individuals (48 530 measurements) from Northern Finland. Linear mixed effects models with smoothing splines were used in each cohort for longitudinal modelling of BMI. VC The Author 2015; all rights reserved. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association 700 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2015, 700–712 doi: 10.1093/ije/dyv077 Advance Access Publication Date: 7 May 2015

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