Fig. 2: Protein-wide association study with body mass index.
From: Revealing the role of the human blood plasma proteome in obesity using genetic drivers
Volcano plot showing the association of BMI with plasma protein levels in KORA using a linear regression model, including age and sex as covariates. Leptin is the strongest protein associated with BMI (p = 3.34 × 10−136) in addition to 151 significantly associated proteins (red).
