Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotype data from a variety of sources were collected. These included individually genotyped SNPs at the ADIPOQ locus (n=33)(An et al. 2012 (link); An et al. 2013 (link)) which were combined with data from 7497 SNPs in the ADIPOQ region (chr3:161,560,463-197,838,262, hg19, 25 MB proximal and to the distal end of the chromosome) derived from Illumina OmniExpress (GWAS chip) genome-wide genotyping as part of the GUARDIAN Consortium(Goodarzi et al. 2013 ) and data from all chromosome 3 SNPs (n=3428) on the Illumina HumanExome Beadchip(Hellwege et al. 2014 (link)) for a total of 10,958 non-redundant, polymorphic SNPs. Quality control for each group of SNP data has previously been described in detail(An et al. 2012 (link); Hellwege et al. 2014 (link)). All datasets underwent Mendelian error checking using PedCheck(O'Connell and Weeks 1998 (link)).