Concurrent Sessions

Tuesday, May 9, 2006, 10.45 - 12.15 hrs - Auditorium

C10. Genetic analysis III

C58. Preference for sweet foods is partially genetically determined; a Finnish family study
K. Keskitalo^1,2, A. Knaapila^1,2, M. Kallela³, A. Palotie⁴, M. Wessman^4,5, S. Sammalisto², L. Peltonen², H. Tuorila¹, M. Perola²;
¹Department of Food Technology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, ²Department of Molecular Medicine, National Public Health Institute (KTL), Helsinki, Finland, ³Department of Neurology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, ⁴The Finnish Genome Center, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, ⁵Folkhälsan Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland.

C59. A common genetic variant 10 kb upstream of INSIG2 is associated with adult and childhood obesity
A. Herbert¹, N. P. Gerry¹, M. B. McQueen², I. M. Heid³, A. Pfeufer⁴, T. Illig³, H. E. Wichmann³, T. Meitinger⁴, D. Hunter⁵, F. B. Hu⁶, G. Colditz⁶, A. Hinney⁷, J. Hebebrand⁷, K. Koberwitz⁴, X. Zhu⁸, R. Cooper⁹, K. Ardlie¹⁰, H. Lyon¹¹, J. N. Hirschhorn¹², N. M. Laird¹³, M. E. Lenburg¹, C. Lange¹³, M. F. Christman¹;
¹Boston University Medical School, Department of Genetics and Genomics, Boston, MA, United States, ²Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, MA, United States, ³GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany, ⁴GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Human Genetics, Neuherberg, Germany, ⁵Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology, Boston, MA, United States, ⁶Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Nurses Health Study, Channing Laboratory, Boston, MA, United States, ⁷University of Duisburg-Essen, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Germany, ⁸Loyola University Medical Center, Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, IL, United States, ⁹Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Department of Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, IL, United States, ¹⁰SeraCare Life Sciences Inc, Genomics Collaborative, Cambrige, MA, United States, ¹¹Children’s Hospital, Boston, Program in Genomics and Divisions of Genetics, MA, United States, ¹²Children’s Hospital, Boston, Department of Genetics, MA, United States, ¹³Harvard School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Boston, MA, United States.

C60. Genetic variants of RANTES are associated with protection for Type 1 Diabetes
A. Zhernakova¹, B. Z. Alizadeh^1,2, P. Eerligh², G. Valdigem¹, P. Hanifi-Moghaddam^2,3, N. C. Schloot³, B. Diosdado¹, C. Wijmenga¹, B. O. Roep², B. P. C. Koeleman^1,2;
¹Complex Genetics Section, Utrecht, The Netherlands, ²Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, LUMC, Leiden, The Netherlands, ³Diabetes Research Institute, Heinrich-Heine University, Dusseldorf, Germany.

C61. Screening and replication using the same data set: A testing strategy for case/control studies
M. B. McQueen¹, J. Su¹, A. Murphy¹, K. Schneiter¹, N. M. Laird¹, S. T. Weiss², C. Lange¹;
¹Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States, ²Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.

C62. Will systematic association studies of anonymous SNPs succeed where linkage studies failed?
J. K. Pickrell, F. Clerget-Darpoux, C. Bourgain;
U535 INSERM, Villejuif, France.

C63. Quantitative mapping of loci influencing susceptibility to lentiviral infection.
S. Deutsch¹, C. Loeuillet², M. Munoz², M. Gagnebin¹, J. Wyniger², H. Attar¹, J. S. Beckmann³, S. E. Antonarakis¹, A. Telenti²;
¹Department of Genetic Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland, ²Institute of Microbiology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, ³Service of Medical Genetics, CHUV- Lausanne, Switzerland.