Authors
Hana Lango Allen, Karol Estrada, Guillaume Lettre, Sonja I Berndt, Michael N Weedon, Fernando Rivadeneira, Cristen J Willer, Anne U Jackson, Sailaja Vedantam, Soumya Raychaudhuri, Teresa Ferreira, Andrew R Wood, Robert J Weyant, Ayellet V Segrè, Elizabeth K Speliotes, Eleanor Wheeler, Nicole Soranzo, Ju-Hyun Park, Jian Yang, Daniel Gudbjartsson, Nancy L Heard-Costa, Joshua C Randall, Lu Qi, Albert Vernon Smith, Reedik Mägi, Tomi Pastinen, Liming Liang, Iris M Heid, Jian’an Luan, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Thomas W Winkler, Michael E Goddard, Ken Sin Lo, Cameron Palmer, Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, Yurii S Aulchenko, Åsa Johansson, M Carola Zillikens, Mary F Feitosa, Tõnu Esko, Toby Johnson, Shamika Ketkar, Peter Kraft, Massimo Mangino, Inga Prokopenko, Devin Absher, Eva Albrecht, Florian Ernst, Nicole L Glazer, Caroline Hayward, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Kevin B Jacobs, Joshua W Knowles, Zoltán Kutalik, Keri L Monda, Ozren Polasek, Michael Preuss, Nigel W Rayner, Neil R Robertson, Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir, Jonathan P Tyrer, Benjamin F Voight, Fredrik Wiklund, Jianfeng Xu, Jing Hua Zhao, Dale R Nyholt, Niina Pellikka, Markus Perola, John RB Perry, Ida Surakka, Mari-Liis Tammesoo, Elizabeth L Altmaier, Najaf Amin, Thor Aspelund, Tushar Bhangale, Gabrielle Boucher, Daniel I Chasman, Constance Chen, Lachlan Coin, Matthew N Cooper, Anna L Dixon, Quince Gibson, Elin Grundberg, Ke Hao, M Juhani Junttila, Lee M Kaplan, Johannes Kettunen, Inke R König, Tony Kwan, Robert W Lawrence, Douglas F Levinson, Mattias Lorentzon, Barbara McKnight, Andrew P Morris, Martina Müller, Julius Suh Ngwa, Shaun Purcell, Suzanne Rafelt, Rany M Salem, Erika Salvi, Serena Sanna, Jianxin Shi, Ulla Sovio, John R Thompson, Michael C Turchin, Liesbeth Vandenput, Dominique J Verlaan, Veronique Vitart, Charles C White, Andreas Ziegler, Peter Almgren, Anthony J Balmforth, Harry Campbell, Lorena Citterio, Alessandro De Grandi, Anna Dominiczak, Jubao Duan, Paul Elliott, Roberto Elosua, Johan G Eriksson, Nelson B Freimer, Eco JC Geus, Nicola Glorioso, Shen Haiqing, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Aki S Havulinna, Andrew A Hicks, Jennie Hui, Wilmar Igl, Thomas Illig, Antti Jula, Eero Kajantie, Tuomas O Kilpeläinen, Markku Koiranen, Ivana Kolcic, Seppo Koskinen, Peter Kovacs, Jaana Laitinen, Jianjun Liu, Marja-Liisa Lokki, Ana Marusic, Andrea Maschio, Thomas Meitinger, Antonella Mulas, Guillaume Paré, Alex N Parker, John F Peden, Astrid Petersmann, Irene Pichler, Kirsi H Pietiläinen
Publication date
2010/10/14
Journal
Nature
Volume
467
Issue
7317
Pages
832-838
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
Most common human traits and diseases have a polygenic pattern of inheritance: DNA sequence variants at many genetic loci influence the phenotype. Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified more than 600 variants associated with human traits, but these typically explain small fractions of phenotypic variation, raising questions about the use of further studies. Here, using 183,727 individuals, we show that hundreds of genetic variants, in at least 180 loci, influence adult height, a highly heritable and classic polygenic trait,. The large number of loci reveals patterns with important implications for genetic studies of common human diseases and traits. First, the 180 loci are not random, but instead are enriched for genes that are connected in biological pathways (P = 0.016) and that underlie skeletal growth defects (P < 0.001). Second, the likely causal gene is often located near the most strongly …
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