MYL2 and Abdominal obesity: The only SNP demonstrating significant association with WCadjBMI was rs12229654, at our previously-identified Asian-specific BMI locus MYL2. Consistent with previous findings7, 19, we observed that 10 out of 23 replicated genetic loci for abdominal obesity showed significant sex differences (P for homogeneity test  < 0.05), 9 of which showed larger effects in women than men (see Supplementary Table 10 online).