Out of the twenty SNPs involved in the present analysis, nine showed no significant association with any obesity- or WC-related phenotype in neither of the populations under investigation (namely rs10938397 (GNPDA2), rs1137101 (LEPR), rs1501299, rs2241766 (ADIPOQ), rs17782313 (MC4R), rs6265, rs925946 (BDNF), rs659366, and rs660339 (UCP2)). This evidence concerns the gene GNPDA2 and Obesity.