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Fine-mapping benefited from additional sample diversity: the number of credible sets with ≤5 variants increased from 3 to 12. A transcriptome-wide association study identified 354 significantly associated genes, 205 of them novel. Mendelian Randomisation showed a bidirectional relationship with BMI exclusively in samples of European ancestry. This first multi-ancestry GWAS of MD demonstrates the importance of large diverse samples for the identification of target genes and putative mechanisms.","journal":"bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)","year":2022,"id":299373,"datarank":0.3111647582028432,"base_score":1.6094379124341003,"endowment":1.6094379124341003,"self_citation_contribution":0.24141568686511508,"citation_network_contribution":0.06974907133772809,"self_endowment_contribution":0.24141568686511508,"citer_contribution":0.06974907133772809,"corpus_percentile":46.027693973853175,"corpus_rank":6978,"citation_count":4,"citer_count":4,"citers_with_citation_signal":4,"citers_with_endowment":4,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":true,"is_dataset_confidence":0.8108,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2022-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":989756,"name":"Georgina Navoly","orcid":null,"position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":240610,"name":"Olga Giannakopoulou","orcid":"0000-0001-8611-2094","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":229992,"name":"Daniel F. 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