Journal ID (nlm-ta): Glob Health Action
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Glob Health Action
Journal ID (publisher-id): ZGHA
Journal ID (publisher-id): zgha20
Title:
Global Health Action
Publisher:
Taylor & Francis
ISSN
(Print):
1654-9716
ISSN
(Electronic):
1654-9880
Publication date Collection: 2018
Publication date
(Electronic):
27
September
2018
Volume: 11
Issue: Suppl 2
,
BMI distribution across African communities: Africa Wits-INDEPTH Partnership for Genomic
Studies (AWI-Gen)
Electronic Location Identifier: 1507133
Affiliations
[a
]
Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University
of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg, South Africa
[b
]
Faculty of Health Sciences University of the Witwatersrand, Division of Human Genetics,
National Health Laboratory Service and School of Pathology , Johannesburg, South Africa
[c
]
Navrongo Health Research Centre , Navrongo, Ghana
[d
]
Department of Pathology and Medical Science, School of Health Care Sciences, Faculty
of Health Sciences, University of Limpopo , Polokwane, South Africa
[e
]
Clinical Research Unit of Nanoro, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Sante , Nanoro, Burkina Faso
[f
]
Department of Chemical Pathology, National Health Laboratory Service, Faculty of Health
Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg, South Africa
[g
]
MRC/Wits Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (Agincourt), School
of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg, South Africa
[h
]
African Population and Health Research Center , Nairobi, Kenya
[i
]
School of Electrical & Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg, South Africa
[j
]
School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg, South Africa
[k
]
INDEPTH Network , Accra, Ghana
[l
]
MRC/Wits Developmental Pathways for Health Research Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences,
University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg, South Africa
[m
]
Statistics Sierra Leone, Tower Hill , Freetown, Sierra Leone
[n
]
Department of Community Medicine, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences,University
of Sierra Leone , Freetown, Sierra Leone
Author notes
CONTACT Michèle Ramsay
michele.ramsay@
123456wits.ac.za
Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Faculty of Health Sciences, University
of the Witwatersrand , 9 Jubilee Road, Parktown, Johannesburg, 2193, South Africa
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
1507133
DOI: 10.1080/16549716.2018.1507133
PMC ID: 6161608
PubMed ID: 30259792
SO-VID: 32a8807a-c879-47af-b547-0327cddc83f8
Copyright © © 2018 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis
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License:
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Funded by:
Department of Science and Technology, South Africa
Award ID: DST/CON 0056/2014
Funded by:
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Award ID: U54HG006938
Funded by:
AWI-Gen Collaborative Centre
Award ID: U54HG006938
Funded by:
the University of the Witwatersrand, the Medical Research Council, South Africa, and
the Wellcome Trust, UK
Award ID: 058893/A/99A
Award ID: 069683/Z/02/Z
Award ID: 085477/Z08/Z
Funded by:
INDEPTH Network in Accra, Ghana
Award ID: U54HG006938-03S1
Funded by:
Health and Aging Study in Africa
Award ID: P01 AG041710
The AWI-Gen Collaborative Centre is funded by the National Human Genome Research Institute
(NHGRI), Office of the Director (OD), Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute Of
Child Health & Human Development (NICHD), the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS), the Office of AIDS research (OAR) and the National Institute
of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), of the National Institutes
of Health (NIH) under award number U54HG006938 and its supplements, as part of the
H3Africa Consortium. Additional funding was leveraged from the Department of Science
and Technology, South Africa, award number DST/CON 0056/2014, and from the African
Partnership for Chronic Disease Research (APCDR).