We also detected 9 SNPs with P values from 8 × 10−4 to 9.7 × 10−18 near the gene FTL (ferritin light polypeptide), which is known to be strongly associated with human obesity and carriers of the risk allele reported to have increased appetite [31]. The gene discussed is FTL; the disease is obesity due to melanocortin 4 receptor deficiency.