Authors
Jian Yang, Ruth JF Loos, Joseph E Powell, Sarah E Medland, Elizabeth K Speliotes, Daniel I Chasman, Lynda M Rose, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Reedik Mägi, Lindsay Waite, Albert Vernon Smith, Laura M Yerges-Armstrong, Keri L Monda, David Hadley, Anubha Mahajan, Guo Li, Karen Kapur, Veronique Vitart, Jennifer E Huffman, Sophie R Wang, Cameron Palmer, Tõnu Esko, Krista Fischer, Jing Hua Zhao, Ayşe Demirkan, Aaron Isaacs, Mary F Feitosa, Jian’an Luan, Nancy L Heard-Costa, Charles White, Anne U Jackson, Michael Preuss, Andreas Ziegler, Joel Eriksson, Zoltán Kutalik, Francesca Frau, Ilja M Nolte, Jana V Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Kevin B Jacobs, Niek Verweij, Anuj Goel, Carolina Medina-Gomez, Karol Estrada, Jennifer Lynn Bragg-Gresham, Serena Sanna, Carlo Sidore, Jonathan Tyrer, Alexander Teumer, Inga Prokopenko, Massimo Mangino, Cecilia M Lindgren, Themistocles L Assimes, Alan R Shuldiner, Jennie Hui, John P Beilby, Wendy L McArdle, Per Hall, Talin Haritunians, Lina Zgaga, Ivana Kolcic, Ozren Polasek, Tatijana Zemunik, Ben A Oostra, M Juhani Junttila, Henrik Grönberg, Stefan Schreiber, Annette Peters, Andrew A Hicks, Jonathan Stephens, Nicola S Foad, Jaana Laitinen, Anneli Pouta, Marika Kaakinen, Gonneke Willemsen, Jacqueline M Vink, Sarah H Wild, Gerjan Navis, Folkert W Asselbergs, Georg Homuth, Ulrich John, Carlos Iribarren, Tamara Harris, Lenore Launer, Vilmundur Gudnason, Jeffrey R O’Connell, Eric Boerwinkle, Gemma Cadby, Lyle J Palmer, Alan L James, Arthur W Musk, Erik Ingelsson, Bruce M Psaty, Jacques S Beckmann, Gerard Waeber, Peter Vollenweider, Caroline Hayward, Alan F Wright, Igor Rudan, Leif C Groop, Andres Metspalu, Kay-Tee Khaw, Cornelia M van Duijn, Ingrid B Borecki, Michael A Province, Nicholas J Wareham, Jean-Claude Tardif, Heikki V Huikuri, L Adrienne Cupples, Larry D Atwood, Caroline S Fox, Michael Boehnke, Francis S Collins, Karen L Mohlke, Jeanette Erdmann, Heribert Schunkert, Christian Hengstenberg, Klaus Stark, Mattias Lorentzon, Claes Ohlsson, Daniele Cusi, Jan A Staessen, Melanie M Van der Klauw, Peter P Pramstaller, Sekar Kathiresan, Jennifer D Jolley, Samuli Ripatti, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Eco JC de Geus, Dorret I Boomsma, Brenda Penninx, James F Wilson, Harry Campbell, Stephen J Chanock, Pim van der Harst, Anders Hamsten, Hugh Watkins, Albert Hofman, Jacqueline C Witteman, M Carola Zillikens, André G Uitterlinden, Fernando Rivadeneira, M Carola Zillikens, Lambertus A Kiemeney, Sita H Vermeulen, Goncalo R Abecasis, David Schlessinger, Sabine Schipf, Michael Stumvoll
Publication date
2012/10/11
Journal
Nature
Volume
490
Issue
7419
Pages
267-272
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
There is evidence across several species for genetic control of phenotypic variation of complex traits,,,, such that the variance among phenotypes is genotype dependent. Understanding genetic control of variability is important in evolutionary biology, agricultural selection programmes and human medicine, yet for complex traits, no individual genetic variants associated with variance, as opposed to the mean, have been identified. Here we perform a meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of phenotypic variation using ∼170,000 samples on height and body mass index (BMI) in human populations. We report evidence that the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs7202116 at the FTO gene locus, which is known to be associated with obesity (as measured by mean BMI for each rs7202116 genotype),,, is also associated with phenotypic variability. We show that the results are not due to scale effects or …
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