Authors
Peter K Joshi, Tonu Esko, Hannele Mattsson, Niina Eklund, Ilaria Gandin, Teresa Nutile, Anne U Jackson, Claudia Schurmann, Albert V Smith, Weihua Zhang, Yukinori Okada, Alena Stančáková, Jessica D Faul, Wei Zhao, Traci M Bartz, Maria Pina Concas, Nora Franceschini, Stefan Enroth, Veronique Vitart, Stella Trompet, Xiuqing Guo, Daniel I Chasman, Jeffrey R O'Connel, Tanguy Corre, Suraj S Nongmaithem, Yuning Chen, Massimo Mangino, Daniela Ruggiero, Michela Traglia, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Tim Kacprowski, Andrew Bjonnes, Ashley Van Der Spek, Ying Wu, Anil K Giri, Lisa R Yanek, Lihua Wang, Edith Hofer, Cornelius A Rietveld, Olga McLeod, Marilyn C Cornelis, Cristian Pattaro, Niek Verweij, Clemens Baumbach, Abdel Abdellaoui, Helen R Warren, Dragana Vuckovic, Hao Mei, Claude Bouchard, John RB Perry, Stefania Cappellani, Saira S Mirza, Miles C Benton, Ulrich Broeckel, Sarah E Medland, Penelope A Lind, Giovanni Malerba, Alexander Drong, Loic Yengo, Lawrence F Bielak, Degui Zhi, Peter J Van Der Most, Daniel Shriner, Reedik Mägi, Gibran Hemani, Tugce Karaderi, Zhaoming Wang, Tian Liu, Ilja Demuth, Jing Hua Zhao, Weihua Meng, Lazaros Lataniotis, Sander W Van Der Laan, Jonathan P Bradfield, Andrew R Wood, Amelie Bonnefond, Tarunveer S Ahluwalia, Leanne M Hall, Erika Salvi, Lisbeth Carstensen, Hugoline G De Haan, Mark Abney, Uzma Afzal, Matthew A Allison, Najaf Amin, Folkert W Asselbergs, Stephan JL Bakker, R Graham Barr, Sebastian E Baumeister, Daniel J Benjamin, Sven Bergmann, Eric Boerwinkle, Erwin P Bottinger, Archie Campbell, Aravinda Chakravarti, Yingleong Chan, Stephen J Chanock, Constance Chen, Y-D Ida Chen, Francis S Collins, John Connell, Adolfo Correa, L Adrienne Cupples, George Davey Smith, Gail Davies, Marcus Dörr, Georg Ehret, Stephen B Ellis, Bjarke Feenstra, Mary F Feitosa, Ian Ford, Caroline S Fox, Timothy M Frayling, Nele Friedrich, Frank Geller, Generation Scotland, Irina Gillham-Nasenya, Omri Gottesman, Misa Graff, Francine Grodstein, Charles Gu, Chris Haley, Christopher J Hammond, Sarah E Harris, Tamara B Harris, Nicholas D Hastie, Nancy L Heard-Costa, Kauko Heikkilä, Lynne J Hocking, Georg Homuth, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Jinyan Huang, Jennifer E Huffman, Pirro G Hysi, M Arfan Ikram, Erik Ingelsson, Anni Joensuu, Åsa Johansson, Pekka Jousilahti, J Wouter Jukema, Mika Kähönen, Yoichiro Kamatani, Stavroula Kanoni, Shona M Kerr, Nazir M Khan, Philipp Koellinger, Heikki A Koistinen, Manraj K Kooner, Michiaki Kubo, Johanna Kuusisto
Publication date
2015/7
Journal
Nature
Volume
523
Issue
7561
Pages
459-462
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group
Description
Homozygosity has long been associated with rare, often devastating, Mendelian disorders 1, and Darwin was one of the first to recognize that inbreeding reduces evolutionary fitness 2. However, the effect of the more distant parental relatedness that is common in modern human populations is less well understood. Genomic data now allow us to investigate the effects of homozygosity on traits of public health importance by observing contiguous homozygous segments (runs of homozygosity), which are inferred to be homozygous along their complete length. Given the low levels of genome-wide homozygosity prevalent in most human populations, information is required on very large numbers of people to provide sufficient power 3, 4. Here we use runs of homozygosity to study 16 health-related quantitative traits in 354,224 individuals from 102 cohorts, and find statistically significant associations between summed …
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PK Joshi, T Esko, H Mattsson, N Eklund, I Gandin… - Nature, 2015