Browsing by Author "Hofman, Albert"

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    • DNA methylation signatures of chronic low-grade inflammation are associated with complex diseases 

      Ligthart, Symen; Marzi, Carola; Aslibekyan, Stella; Mendelson, Michael M.; Conneely, Karen N.; Tanaka, Toshiko; Colicino, Elena; Waite, Lindsay L.; Joehanes, Roby; Guan, Weihua; Brody, Jennifer A.; Elks, Cathy; Marioni, Riccardo; Jhun, Min A.; Agha, Golareh; Bressler, Jan; Ward-Caviness, Cavin K.; Chen, Brian H.; Huan, Tianxiao; Bakulski, Kelly; Salfati, Elias L.; Fiorito, Giovanni; Wahl, Simone; Schramm, Katharina; Sha, Jin; Hernandez, Dena G.; Just, Allan C.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Sotoodehnia, Nona; Pilling, Luke C.; Pankow, James S.; Tsao, Phil S.; Liu, Chunyu; Zhao, Wei; Guarrera, Simonetta; Michopoulos, Vasiliki J.; Smith, Alicia K.; Peters, Marjolein J.; Melzer, David; Vokonas, Pantel; Fornage, Myriam; Prokisch, Holger; Bis, Joshua C.; Chu, Audrey Y.; Herder, Christian; Grallert, Harald; Yao, Chen; Shah, Sonia; McRae, Allan F.; Lin, Honghuang; Horvath, Steve; Fallin, Daniele; Hofman, Albert; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Wiggins, Kerri L.; Feinberg, Andrew P.; Starr, John M.; Visscher, Peter M.; Murabito, Joanne M.; Kardia, Sharon L. R.; Absher, Devin M.; Binder, Elisabeth B.; Singleton, Andrew B.; Bandinelli, Stefania; Peters, Annette; Waldenberger, Melanie; Matullo, Giuseppe; Schwartz, Joel D.; Demerath, Ellen W.; Uitterlinden, André G.; van Meurs, Joyce B. J.; Franco, Oscar H.; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Levy, Daniel; Turner, Stephen T.; Deary, Ian J.; Ressler, Kerry J.; Dupuis, Josée; Ferrucci, Luigi; Ong, Ken K.; Assimes, Themistocles L.; Boerwinkle, Eric; Koenig, Wolfgang; Arnett, Donna K.; Baccarelli, Andrea A.; Benjamin, Emelia J.; Dehghan, Abbas (BioMed Central, 2016)
      Background: Chronic low-grade inflammation reflects a subclinical immune response implicated in the pathogenesis of complex diseases. Identifying genetic loci where DNA methylation is associated with chronic low-grade ...

    • DNA methylation-based measures of biological age: meta-analysis predicting time to death 

      Chen, Brian H.; Marioni, Riccardo E.; Colicino, Elena; Peters, Marjolein J.; Ward-Caviness, Cavin K.; Tsai, Pei-Chien; Roetker, Nicholas S.; Just, Allan C.; Demerath, Ellen W.; Guan, Weihua; Bressler, Jan; Fornage, Myriam; Studenski, Stephanie; Vandiver, Amy R.; Moore, Ann Zenobia; Tanaka, Toshiko; Kiel, Douglas P.; Liang, Liming; Vokonas, Pantel; Schwartz, Joel; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; Murabito, Joanne M.; Bandinelli, Stefania; Hernandez, Dena G.; Melzer, David; Nalls, Michael; Pilling, Luke C.; Price, Timothy R.; Singleton, Andrew B.; Gieger, Christian; Holle, Rolf; Kretschmer, Anja; Kronenberg, Florian; Kunze, Sonja; Linseisen, Jakob; Meisinger, Christine; Rathmann, Wolfgang; Waldenberger, Melanie; Visscher, Peter M.; Shah, Sonia; Wray, Naomi R.; McRae, Allan F.; Franco, Oscar H.; Hofman, Albert; Uitterlinden, André G.; Absher, Devin; Assimes, Themistocles; Levine, Morgan E.; Lu, Ake T.; Tsao, Philip S.; Hou, Lifang; Manson, JoAnn E.; Carty, Cara L.; LaCroix, Andrea Z.; Reiner, Alexander P.; Spector, Tim D.; Feinberg, Andrew P.; Levy, Daniel; Baccarelli, Andrea; van Meurs, Joyce; Bell, Jordana T.; Peters, Annette; Deary, Ian J.; Pankow, James S.; Ferrucci, Luigi; Horvath, Steve (Impact Journals LLC, 2016)
      Estimates of biological age based on DNA methylation patterns, often referred to as “epigenetic age”, “DNAm age”, have been shown to be robust biomarkers of age in humans. We previously demonstrated that independent of ...

    • Drug-gene interactions and the search for missing heritability: a cross-sectional pharmacogenomics study of the QT interval 

      Avery, Christy L.; Sitlani, Colleen M.; Arking, Dan E.; Arnett, Donna K.; Bis, Joshua C.; Boerwinkle, Eric; Buckley, Brendan M.; Chen, Y.-D. Ida; de Craen, Anton JM; Eijgelsheim, Mark; Enquobahrie, Daniel; Evans, Daniel S.; Ford, Ian; Garcia, Melissa E.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Harris, Tamara B.; Heckbert, Susan R.; Hochner, Hagit; Hofman, Albert; Hsueh, Wen-Chi; Isaacs, Aaron; Jukema, J. Wouter; Knekt, Paul; Kors, Jan A.; Krijthe, Bouwe P.; Kristiansson, Kati; Laaksonen, Maarit; Liu, Yongmei; Li, Xiaohui; MacFarlane, Peter W.; Newton-Cheh, Christopher; Nieminen, Markku S.; Oostra, Ben A.; Peloso, Gina M.; Porthan, Kimmo; Rice, Kenneth; Rivadeneira, Fernando F.; Rotter, Jerome I.; Salomaa, Veikko; Sattar, Naveed; Siscovick, David S.; Slagboom, P. Eline; Smith, Albert V.; Sotoodehnia, Nona; Stott, David J.; Stricker, Bruno H.; Stürmer, Til; Trompet, Stella; Uitterlinden, Andre G.; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Westendorp, Rudi GJ; Witteman, Jacqueline C.; Whitsel, Eric A.; Psaty, Bruce M. (2013)
      Variability in response to drug use is common and heritable, suggesting that genome-wide pharmacogenomics studies may help explain the “missing heritability” of complex traits. Here, we describe four independent analyses ...

    • Eight Common Genetic Variants Associated with Serum DHEAS Levels Suggest a Key Role in Ageing Mechanisms 

      Zhai, Guangju; Teumer, Alexander; Stolk, Lisette; Vandenput, Liesbeth; Coviello, Andrea D.; Koster, Annemarie; Bell, Jordana T.; Bhasin, Shalender; Eriksson, Joel; Eriksson, Anna; Ernst, Florian; Ferrucci, Luigi; Frayling, Timothy M.; Grundberg, Elin; Haring, Robin; Kroemer, Heyo K.; Liu, Yongmei; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; Maggio, Marcello; Lorentzon, Mattias; Mangino, Massimo; Melzer, David; Miljkovic, Iva; Nica, Alexandra; Penninx, Brenda W. J. H.; Vasan, Ramachandran S.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Small, Kerrin S.; Soranzo, Nicole; Xi, Li; Zhuang, Wei Vivian; Harris, Tamara B.; Murabito, Joanne M.; Ohlsson, Claes; Murray, Anna; de Jong, Frank H.; Spector, Tim D.; Wallaschofski, Henri; Perry, John; Wilson, Scott G.; Glass, Daniel; Hofman, Albert; Kiel, Douglas P.; Hedman, Asa K.; Uitterlinden, Andre G.; Volzke, Henry (Public Library of Science, 2011)
      Dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate (DHEAS) is the most abundant circulating steroid secreted by adrenal glands, yet its function is unknown. Its serum concentration declines significantly with increasing age, which has led ...

    • Genetic architecture of subcortical brain structures in 38,851 individuals 

      Satizabal, Claudia L.; Adams, Hieab H. H.; Hibar, Derrek P.; White, Charles C.; Knol, Maria J.; Stein, Jason L.; Scholz, Markus; Sargurupremraj, Muralidharan; Jahanshad, Neda; Roshchupkin, Gennady V.; Smith, Albert V.; Bis, Joshua C.; Jian, Xueqiu; Luciano, Michelle; Hofer, Edith; Teumer, Alexander; van der Lee, Sven J.; Yang, Jingyun; Yanek, Lisa R.; Lee, Tom V.; Li, Shuo; Hu, Yanhui; Koh, Jia Yu; Eicher, John D.; Desrivières, Sylvane; Arias-Vasquez, Alejandro; Chauhan, Ganesh; Athanasiu, Lavinia; Rentería, Miguel E.; Kim, Sungeun; Hoehn, David; Armstrong, Nicola J.; Chen, Qiang; Holmes, Avram J.; den Braber, Anouk; Kloszewska, Iwona; Andersson, Micael; Espeseth, Thomas; Grimm, Oliver; Abramovic, Lucija; Alhusaini, Saud; Milaneschi, Yuri; Papmeyer, Martina; Axelsson, Tomas; Ehrlich, Stefan; Roiz-Santiañez, Roberto; Kraemer, Bernd; Håberg, Asta K.; Jones, Hannah J.; Pike, G. Bruce; Stein, Dan J.; Stevens, Allison; Bralten, Janita; Vernooij, Meike W.; Harris, Tamara B.; Filippi, Irina; Witte, A. Veronica; Guadalupe, Tulio; Wittfeld, Katharina; Mosley, Thomas H.; Becker, James T.; Doan, Nhat Trung; Hagenaars, Saskia P.; Saba, Yasaman; Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel; Amin, Najaf; Hilal, Saima; Nho, Kwangsik; Mirza-Schreiber, Nazanin; Arfanakis, Konstantinos; Becker, Diane M.; Ames, David; Goldman, Aaron L.; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Lovestone, Simon; Giddaluru, Sudheer; Le Hellard, Stephanie; Mattheisen, Manuel; Bohlken, Marc M.; Kasperaviciute, Dalia; Schmaal, Lianne; Lawrie, Stephen M.; Agartz, Ingrid; Walton, Esther; Tordesillas-Gutierrez, Diana; Davies, Gareth E.; Shin, Jean; Ipser, Jonathan C.; Vinke, Louis N.; Hoogman, Martine; Jia, Tianye; Burkhardt, Ralph; Klein, Marieke; Crivello, Fabrice; Janowitz, Deborah; Carmichael, Owen; Haukvik, Unn K.; Aribisala, Benjamin S.; Schmidt, Helena; Strike, Lachlan T.; Cheng, Ching-Yu; Risacher, Shannon L.; Pütz, Benno; Fleischman, Debra A.; Assareh, Amelia A.; Mattay, Venkata S.; Mecocci, Patrizia; Dale, Anders M.; Cichon, Sven; Boks, Marco P.; Matarin, Mar; Penninx, Brenda W. J. H.; Calhoun, Vince D.; Chakravarty, M. Mallar; Marquand, Andre F.; Macare, Christine; Kharabian Masouleh, Shahrzad; Oosterlaan, Jaap; Amouyel, Philippe; Hegenscheid, Katrin; Rotter, Jerome I.; Schork, Andrew J.; Liewald, David C. M.; de Zubicaray, Greig I.; Wong, Tien Yin; Shen, Li; Sämann, Philipp G.; Brodaty, Henry; Roffman, Joshua L.; de Geus, Eco J. C.; Tsolaki, Magda; Erk, Susanne; van Eijk, Kristel R.; Cavalleri, Gianpiero L.; van der Wee, Nic J. A.; McIntosh, Andrew M.; Gollub, Randy; Bulayeva, Kazima B.; Bernard, Manon; Richards, Jennifer S.; Himali, Jayandra J.; Loeffler, Markus; Rommelse, Nanda; Hoffmann, Wolfgang; Westlye, Lars T.; Valdés Hernández, Maria C.; Hansell, Narelle K.; van Erp, Theo G. M.; Wolf, Christiane; Kwok, John B. J.; Vellas, Bruno; Heinz, Andreas; Olde Loohuis, Loes M.; Delanty, Norman; Ho, Beng-Choon; Ching, Christopher R. K.; Shumskaya, Elena; Singh, Baljeet; Hofman, Albert; van der Meer, Dennis; Homuth, Georg; Psaty, Bruce M.; Bastin, Mark E.; Montgomery, Grant W.; Foroud, Tatiana M.; Reppermund, Simone; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Simmons, Andrew; Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas; Cahn, Wiepke; Whelan, Christopher D.; van Donkelaar, Marjolein M. J.; Yang, Qiong; Hosten, Norbert; Green, Robert; Thalamuthu, Anbupalam; Mohnke, Sebastian; Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E.; Lin, Honghuang; Jack, Clifford R.; Schofield, Peter R.; Mühleisen, Thomas W.; Maillard, Pauline; Potkin, Steven G.; Wen, Wei; Fletcher, Evan; Toga, Arthur W.; Gruber, Oliver; Huentelman, Matthew; Davey Smith, George; Launer, Lenore J.; Nyberg, Lars; Jönsson, Erik G.; Crespo-Facorro, Benedicto; Koen, Nastassja; Greve, Douglas; Uitterlinden, André G.; Weinberger, Daniel R.; Steen, Vidar M.; Fedko, Iryna O.; Groenewold, Nynke A.; Niessen, Wiro J.; Toro, Roberto; Tzourio, Christophe; Longstreth, William T.; Ikram, M. Kamran; van Tol, Marie-Jose; Sussmann, Jessika E.; Paus, Tomas; Lemaître, Hervé; Schroeter, Matthias L.; Mazoyer, Bernard; Andreassen, Ole A.; Holsboer, Florian; Depondt, Chantal; Veltman, Dick J.; Turner, Jessica A.; Pausova, Zdenka; Schumann, Gunter; van Rooij, Daan; Djurovic, Srdjan; Deary, Ian J.; McMahon, Katie L.; Müller-Myhsok, Bertram; Brouwer, Rachel M.; Soininen, Hilkka; Pandolfo, Massimo; Wassink, Thomas H.; Cheung, Joshua W.; Wolfers, Thomas; Martinot, Jean-Luc; Zwiers, Marcel P.; Nauck, Matthias; Melle, Ingrid; Martin, Nicholas G.; Kanai, Ryota; Westman, Eric; Kahn, René S.; Sisodiya, Sanjay M.; White, Tonya; Saremi, Arvin; van Bokhoven, Hans; Brunner, Han G.; Völzke, Henry; Wright, Margaret J.; van ‘t Ent, Dennis; Nöthen, Markus M.; Ophoff, Roel A.; Buitelaar, Jan K.; Fernández, Guillén; Sachdev, Perminder S.; Rietschel, Marcella; van Haren, Neeltje E. M.; Fisher, Simon E.; Beiser, Alexa S.; Francks, Clyde; Saykin, Andrew J.; Mather, Karen A.; Romanczuk-Seiferth, Nina; Hartman, Catharina A.; DeStefano, Anita L.; Heslenfeld, Dirk J.; Weiner, Michael W.; Walter, Henrik; Hoekstra, Pieter J.; Nyquist, Paul A.; Franke, Barbara; Bennett, David A.; Grabe, Hans J.; Johnson, Andrew D.; Chen, Christopher; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Lopez, Oscar L.; Fornage, Myriam; Wardlaw, Joanna M.; Schmidt, Reinhold; DeCarli, Charles; De Jager, Philip L.; Villringer, Arno; Debette, Stéphanie; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Medland, Sarah E.; Shulman, Joshua M.; Thompson, Paul M.; Seshadri, Sudha; Ikram, M. Arfan; Lee, Philip; Smoller, Jordan; Buckner, Randy (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019-10-21)
      Subcortical brain structures are integral to motion, consciousness, emotions, and learning. We identified common genetic variation related to the volumes of nucleus accumbens, amygdala, brainstem, caudate nucleus, globus ...

    • Genetic associations with subjective well-being also implicate depression and neuroticism 

      Okbay, Aysu; Baselmans, Bart M. L.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Turley, Patrick Ansel; Nivard, Michel G.; Fontana, Mark A.; Meddens, Fleur S. W.; Linnér, Richard Karlsson; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Derringer, Jaime; Gratten, Jacob; Lee, James J.; Liu, Jimmy Z.; de Vlaming, Ronald; Conley, Dalton C.; Smith, George Davey; Hofman, Albert; Johannesson, Magnus; Laibson, David I.; Medland, Sarah E.; Meyer, Michelle N.; Pickrell, Joseph; Esko, Tonu; Krueger, Robert F.; Beauchamp, Jonathan Pierre; Koellinger, Philipp D.; Benjamin, Daniel J.; Bartels, Meike; Cesarini, David; Benjamin, Daniel; Bartels, Meike; Koellinger, Philipp (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      We conducted a genome-wide association study of subjective well-being (SWB) in 298,420 individuals. We also performed auxiliary analyses of depressive symptoms (“DS”; N = 161,460) and neuroticism (N = 170,910), both of ...

    • Genetic variants associated with subjective well-being, depressive symptoms and neuroticism identified through genome-wide analyses 

      Okbay, Aysu; Baselmans, Bart M.L.; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Turley, Patrick; Nivard, Michel G.; Fontana, Mark Alan; Meddens, S. Fleur W.; Linnér, Richard Karlsson; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Derringer, Jaime; Gratten, Jacob; Lee, James J.; Liu, Jimmy Z.; de Vlaming, Ronald; Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.; Buchwald, Jadwiga; Cavadino, Alana; Frazier-Wood, Alexis C.; Furlotte, Nicholas A.; Garfield, Victoria; Geisel, Marie Henrike; Gonzalez, Juan R.; Haitjema, Saskia; Karlsson, Robert; van der Laan, Sander W.; Ladwig, Karl-Heinz; Lahti, Jari; van der Lee, Sven J.; Lind, Penelope A.; Liu, Tian; Matteson, Lindsay; Mihailov, Evelin; Miller, Michael B.; Minica, Camelia C.; Nolte, Ilja M.; Mook-Kanamori, Dennis; van der Most, Peter J.; Oldmeadow, Christopher; Qian, Yong; Raitakari, Olli; Rawal, Rajesh; Realo, Anu; Rueedi, Rico; Schmidt, Börge; Smith, Albert V.; Stergiakouli, Evie; Tanaka, Toshiko; Taylor, Kent; Wedenoja, Juho; Wellmann, Juergen; Westra, Harm-Jan; Willems, Sara M.; Zhao, Wei; Amin, Najaf; Bakshi, Andrew; Boyle, Patricia A.; Cherney, Samantha; Cox, Simon R.; Davies, Gail; Davis, Oliver S.P.; Ding, Jun; Direk, Nese; Eibich, Peter; Emeny, Rebecca T.; Fatemifar, Ghazaleh; Faul, Jessica D.; Ferrucci, Luigi; Forstner, Andreas; Gieger, Christian; Gupta, Richa; Harris, Tamara B.; Harris, Juliette M.; Holliday, Elizabeth G.; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; De Jager, Philip L.; Kaakinen, Marika A.; Kajantie, Eero; Karhunen, Ville; Kolcic, Ivana; Kumari, Meena; Launer, Lenore J.; Franke, Lude; Li-Gao, Ruifang; Koini, Marisa; Loukola, Anu; Marques-Vidal, Pedro; Montgomery, Grant W.; Mosing, Miriam A.; Paternoster, Lavinia; Pattie, Alison; Petrovic, Katja E.; Pulkki-Råback, Laura; Quaye, Lydia; Räikkönen, Katri; Rudan, Igor; Scott, Rodney J.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Sutin, Angelina R.; Trzaskowski, Maciej; Vinkhuyzen, Anna E.; Yu, Lei; Zabaneh, Delilah; Attia, John R.; Bennett, David A.; Berger, Klaus; Bertram, Lars; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Snieder, Harold; Chang, Shun-Chiao; Cucca, Francesco; Deary, Ian J.; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Eriksson, Johan G.; Bültmann, Ute; de Geus, Eco J.C.; Groenen, Patrick J.F.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Hansen, Torben; Hartman, Catharine A.; Haworth, Claire M.A.; Hayward, Caroline; Heath, Andrew C.; Hinds, David A.; Hyppönen, Elina; Iacono, William G.; Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Jöckel, Karl-Heinz; Kaprio, Jaakko; Kardia, Sharon L.R.; Keltikangas-Järvinen, Liisa; Kraft, Peter; Kubzansky, Laura D.; Lehtimäki, Terho; Magnusson, Patrik K.E.; Martin, Nicholas G.; McGue, Matt; Metspalu, Andres; Mills, Melinda; de Mutsert, Renée; Oldehinkel, Albertine J.; Pasterkamp, Gerard; Pedersen, Nancy L.; Plomin, Robert; Polasek, Ozren; Power, Christine; Rich, Stephen S.; Rosendaal, Frits R.; den Ruijter, Hester M.; Schlessinger, David; Schmidt, Helena; Svento, Rauli; Schmidt, Reinhold; Alizadeh, Behrooz Z.; Sørensen, Thorkild I.A.; Spector, Tim D.; Steptoe, Andrew; Terracciano, Antonio; Thurik, A. Roy; Timpson, Nicholas J.; Tiemeier, Henning; Uitterlinden, André G.; Vollenweider, Peter; Wagner, Gert G.; Weir, David R.; Yang, Jian; Conley, Dalton C.; Smith, George Davey; Hofman, Albert; Johannesson, Magnus; Laibson, David I.; Medland, Sarah E.; Meyer, Michelle N.; Pickrell, Joseph K.; Esko, Tõnu; Krueger, Robert F.; Beauchamp, Jonathan P.; Koellinger, Philipp D.; Benjamin, Daniel J.; Bartels, Meike; Cesarini, David (2016)
      We conducted genome-wide association studies of three phenotypes: subjective well-being (N = 298,420), depressive symptoms (N = 161,460), and neuroticism (N = 170,910). We identified three variants associated with subjective ...

    • Genome-Wide Association and Functional Follow-Up Reveals New Loci for Kidney Function 

      Pattaro, Cristian; Köttgen, Anna; Teumer, Alexander; Böger, Carsten A.; Fuchsberger, Christian; Olden, Matthias; Chen, Ming-Huei; Tin, Adrienne; Taliun, Daniel; Li, Man; Gao, Xiaoyi; Gorski, Mathias; Yang, Qiong; Hundertmark, Claudia; Foster, Meredith C.; Glazer, Nicole; Isaacs, Aaron; Liu, Ching-Ti; Smith, Albert V.; O'Connell, Jeffrey R.; Struchalin, Maksim; Tanaka, Toshiko; Gierman, Hinco J.; Feitosa, Mary; Hwang, Shih-Jen; Atkinson, Elizabeth J.; Lohman, Kurt; Johansson, Åsa; Tönjes, Anke; Dehghan, Abbas; Chouraki, Vincent; Holliday, Elizabeth G.; Sorice, Rossella; Kutalik, Zoltan; Lehtimäki, Terho; Esko, Tõnu; Deshmukh, Harshal; Ulivi, Sheila; Murgia, Federico; Trompet, Stella; Imboden, Medea; Kollerits, Barbara; Pistis, Giorgio; Harris, Tamara B.; Launer, Lenore J.; Aspelund, Thor; Eiriksdottir, Gudny; Mitchell, Braxton D.; Boerwinkle, Eric; Schmidt, Helena; Cavalieri, Margherita; Rao, Madhumathi; Demirkan, Ayse; Oostra, Ben A.; de Andrade, Mariza; Ding, Jingzhong; Andrews, Jeanette S.; Freedman, Barry I.; Koenig, Wolfgang; Illig, Thomas; Döring, Angela; Wichmann, H.-Erich; Kolcic, Ivana; Zemunik, Tatijana; Boban, Mladen; Minelli, Cosetta; Wheeler, Heather E.; Igl, Wilmar; Zaboli, Ghazal; Wild, Sarah H.; Wright, Alan F.; Campbell, Harry; Ellinghaus, David; Nöthlings, Ute; Jacobs, Gunnar; Biffar, Reiner; Endlich, Karlhans; Ernst, Florian; Homuth, Georg; Kroemer, Heyo K.; Nauck, Matthias; Stracke, Sylvia; Völker, Uwe; Völzke, Henry; Kovacs, Peter; Stumvoll, Michael; Mägi, Reedik; Uitterlinden, Andre G.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Aulchenko, Yurii S.; Polasek, Ozren; Hastie, Nick; Vitart, Veronique; Helmer, Catherine; Wang, Jie Jin; Ruggiero, Daniela; Bergmann, Sven; Kähönen, Mika; Viikari, Jorma; Nikopensius, Tiit; Province, Michael; Ketkar, Shamika; Colhoun, Helen; Doney, Alex; Robino, Antonietta; Giulianini, Franco; Krämer, Bernhard K.; Portas, Laura; Ford, Ian; Buckley, Brendan M.; Adam, Martin; Thun, Gian-Andri; Paulweber, Bernhard; Haun, Margot; Sala, Cinzia; Metzger, Marie; Mitchell, Paul; Ciullo, Marina; Kim, Stuart K.; Vollenweider, Peter; Raitakari, Olli; Metspalu, Andres; Palmer, Colin; Gasparini, Paolo; Pirastu, Mario; Jukema, J. Wouter; Probst-Hensch, Nicole M.; Kronenberg, Florian; Toniolo, Daniela; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Shuldiner, Alan R.; Coresh, Josef; Schmidt, Reinhold; Ferrucci, Luigi; Siscovick, David S.; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Borecki, Ingrid; Kardia, Sharon L. R.; Liu, Yongmei; Rudan, Igor; Gyllensten, Ulf; Wilson, James F.; Franke, Andre; Pramstaller, Peter P.; Rettig, Rainer; Prokopenko, Inga; Witteman, Jacqueline C. M.; Hayward, Caroline; Parsa, Afshin; Bochud, Murielle; Heid, Iris M.; Garnaas, Maija; O'Seaghdha, Conall; Li, Guo; Johnson, Andrew D.; Cornelis, Marilyn; Chu, Audrey Yu-lei; Hu, Frank B.; Turner, Stephen T.; Hofman, Albert; Curhan, Gary Craig; Ridker, Paul M.; Goessling, Wolfram; Chasman, Daniel Ian; Kao, W. H. Linda; Fox, Caroline (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is an important public health problem with a genetic component. We performed genome-wide association studies in up to 130,600 European ancestry participants overall, and stratified for key CKD ...

    • A Genome-Wide Association Meta-Analysis of Circulating Sex Hormone–Binding Globulin Reveals Multiple Loci Implicated in Sex Steroid Hormone Regulation 

      Coviello, Andrea D.; Haring, Robin; Wellons, Melissa; Vaidya, Dhananjay; Lehtimäki, Terho; Keildson, Sarah; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; He, Chunyan; Fornage, Myriam; Lagou, Vasiliki; Mangino, Massimo; Onland-Moret, N. Charlotte; Eriksson, Joel; Garcia, Melissa; Liu, Yong Mei; Koster, Annemarie; Lohman, Kurt; Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka; Petersen, Ann-Kristin; Stolk, Lisette; Vandenput, Liesbeth; Wood, Andrew R.; Zhuang, Wei Vivian; Ruokonen, Aimo; Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa; Pouta, Anneli; Bandinelli, Stefania; Biffar, Reiner; Brabant, Georg; Chen, Yuhui; Cummings, Steven; Ferrucci, Luigi; Gunter, Marc J.; Martikainen, Hannu; Homuth, Georg; Illig, Thomas; Jansson, John-Olov; Karlsson, Magnus; Kettunen, Johannes; Liu, Jingmin; Ljunggren, Östen; Lorentzon, Mattias; Maggio, Marcello; Markus, Marcello R. P.; Mellström, Dan; Miljkovic, Iva; Mirel, Daniel; Morin Papunen, Laure; Peeters, Petra H. M.; Prokopenko, Inga; Raffel, Leslie; Reincke, Martin; Reiner, Alex P.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Schwartz, Stephen M.; Siscovick, David; Soranzo, Nicole; Stöckl, Doris; Uitterlinden, André G.; van Gils, Carla H.; Vasan, Ramachandran S.; Wichmann, H.-Erich; Zhai, Guangju; Bhasin, Shalender; Bidlingmaier, Martin; Chanock, Stephen J.; Harris, Tamara B.; Kähönen, Mika; Liu, Simin; Ouyang, Pamela; Spector, Tim D.; van der Schouw, Yvonne T.; Viikari, Jorma; Wallaschofski, Henri; McCarthy, Mark I.; Frayling, Timothy M.; Murray, Anna; Franks, Steve; Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta; de Jong, Frank H.; Raitakari, Olli; Teumer, Alexander; Ohlsson, Claes; Murabito, Joanne M.; Perry, John R. B.; Chen, Brian; Prescott, Jennifer; Cox, David G.; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Hofman, Albert; Johnson, Andrew D.; Karasik, David; Kiel, Douglas P.; Nelson, Sarah; Rexrode, Kathryn Marian; Tworoger, Shelley Slate; De Vivo, Immaculata; Hunter, David J.; Kraft, Peter (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) is a glycoprotein responsible for the transport and biologic availability of sex steroid hormones, primarily testosterone and estradiol. SHBG has been associated with chronic diseases ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Studies of Multiple Keratinocyte Cancers 

      Pardo, Luba M.; Li, Wen-Qing; Hwang, Shih-Jen; Verkouteren, Joris A. C.; Hofman, Albert; Uitterlinden, André G.; Kraft, Peter; Turman, Constance; Han, Jiali; Cho, Eunyoung; Murabito, Joanne M.; Levy, Daniel; Qureshi, Abrar A.; Nijsten, Tamar (Public Library of Science, 2017)
      There is strong evidence for a role of environmental risk factors involved in susceptibility to develop multiple keratinocyte cancers (mKCs), but whether genes are also involved in mKCs susceptibility has not been thoroughly ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Studies of Serum Magnesium, Potassium, and Sodium Concentrations Identify Six Loci Influencing Serum Magnesium Levels 

      Meyer, Tamra E.; Verwoert, Germaine C.; Hwang, Shih-Jen; Glazer, Nicole L.; Smith, Albert V.; van Rooij, Frank J. A.; Ehret, Georg B.; Boerwinkle, Eric; Felix, Janine F.; Leak, Tennille S.; Harris, Tamara B.; Yang, Qiong; Dehghan, Abbas; Aspelund, Thor; Katz, Ronit; Homuth, Georg; Kocher, Thomas; Rettig, Rainer; Ried, Janina S.; Gieger, Christian; Prucha, Hanna; Pfeufer, Arne; Meitinger, Thomas; Coresh, Josef; Sarnak, Mark J.; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Uitterlinden, André G.; Chakravarti, Aravinda; Psaty, Bruce M.; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Witteman, Jacqueline C. M.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Siscovick, David S.; Köttgen, Anna; Hofman, Albert; Kao, W. H. Linda; Fox, Caroline (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      Magnesium, potassium, and sodium, cations commonly measured in serum, are involved in many physiological processes including energy metabolism, nerve and muscle function, signal transduction, and fluid and blood pressure ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Study Identifies Novel Loci Associated with Circulating Phospho- and Sphingolipid Concentrations 

      Demirkan, Ayşe; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Ugocsai, Peter; Isaacs, Aaron; Pramstaller, Peter P.; Liebisch, Gerhard; Wilson, James F.; Johansson, Åsa; Rudan, Igor; Aulchenko, Yurii S.; Kirichenko, Anatoly V.; Janssens, A. Cecile J. W.; Jansen, Ritsert C.; Gnewuch, Carsten; Domingues, Francisco S.; Pattaro, Cristian; Wild, Sarah H.; Jonasson, Inger; Polasek, Ozren; Zorkoltseva, Irina V.; Karssen, Lennart C.; Struchalin, Maksim; Floyd, James; Igl, Wilmar; Biloglav, Zrinka; Broer, Linda; Pfeufer, Arne; Pichler, Irene; Zaboli, Ghazal; Kolcic, Ivana; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Huffman, Jennifer; Hastie, Nicholas D.; Uitterlinden, Andre; Franke, Lude; Vitart, Veronique; Nelson, Christopher P.; Preuss, Michael; Bis, Joshua C.; Franceschini, Nora; Witteman, Jacqueline C. M.; Axenovich, Tatiana; Oostra, Ben A.; Meitinger, Thomas; Hicks, Andrew A.; Hayward, Caroline; Wright, Alan F.; Gyllensten, Ulf; Campbell, Harry; Schmitz, Gerd; Hofman, Albert; Campbell, Susanna Grace; Franklin, Christopher S.; O'Donnell, Christopher Joseph (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Phospho- and sphingolipids are crucial cellular and intracellular compounds. These lipids are required for active transport, a number of enzymatic processes, membrane formation, and cell signalling. Disruption of their ...

    • A genome-wide association study of early menopause and the combined impact of identified variants 

      Perry, John R. B.; Corre, Tanguy; Esko, Tõnu; Chasman, Daniel Ian; Fischer, Krista; Franceschini, Nora; He, Chunyan; Kutalik, Zoltan; Mangino, Massimo; Rose, Lynda M.; Vernon Smith, Albert; Stolk, Lisette; Sulem, Patrick; Weedon, Michael N.; Zhuang, Wei V.; Arnold, Alice; Ashworth, Alan; Bergmann, Sven; Buring, Julie Elizabeth; Burri, Andrea; Chen, Constance; Cornelis, Marilyn; Couper, David J.; Goodarzi, Mark O.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Harris, Tamara; Hofman, Albert; Jones, Michael; Kraft, Phillip L.; Launer, Lenore; Laven, Joop S. E.; Li, Guoan; McKnight, Barbara; Masciullo, Corrado; Milani, Lili; Orr, Nicholas; Psaty, Bruce M.; Ridker, Paul M.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Sala, Cinzia; Salumets, Andres; Schoemaker, Minouk; Traglia, Michela; Waeber, Gérard; Chanock, Stephen J.; Demerath, Ellen W.; Garcia, Melissa; Hankinson, Susan Elizabeth; Hu, Frank B.; Hunter, David J.; Lunetta, Kathryn L.; Metspalu, Andres; Montgomery, Grant W.; Murabito, Joanne M.; Newman, Anne B.; Ong, Ken K.; Spector, Tim D.; Stefansson, Kari; Swerdlow, Anthony J.; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; van Dam, Rob M.; Uitterlinden, André G.; Visser, Jenny A.; Vollenweider, Peter; Toniolo, Daniela; Murray, Anna (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      Early menopause (EM) affects up to 10% of the female population, reducing reproductive lifespan considerably. Currently, it constitutes the leading cause of infertility in the western world, affecting mainly those women ...

    • Genome-Wide Association Study of Retinopathy in Individuals Without Diabetes 

      Jensen, Richard A.; Sim, Xueling; Li, Xiaohui; Cotch, Mary Frances; Ikram, M. Kamran; Holliday, Elizabeth G.; Eiriksdottir, Gudny; Harris, Tamara B.; Jonasson, Fridbert; Klein, Barbara E. K.; Launer, Lenore J.; Smith, Albert Vernon; Boerwinkle, Eric; Cheung, Ning; Hewitt, Alex W.; Liew, Gerald; Mitchell, Paul; Wang, Jie Jin; Attia, John; Scott, Rodney; Glazer, Nicole L.; Lumley, Thomas; McKnight, Barbara; Psaty, Bruce M.; Taylor, Kent; Hofman, Albert; de Jong, Paulus T. V. M.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Uitterlinden, Andre G.; Tay, Wan-Ting; Teo, Yik Ying; Seielstad, Mark; Liu, Jianjun; Cheng, Ching-Yu; Saw, Seang-Mei; Aung, Tin; Ganesh, Santhi K.; O'Donnell, Christopher Joseph; Nalls, Mike A.; Wiggins, Kerri L.; Kuo, Jane Z.; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Klein, Ronald; Siscovick, David S.; Rotter, Jerome I.; Tai, E. Shong; Vingerling, Johannes; Wong, Tien Y.; Blue Mountains Eye Study GWAS team; CKDGen Consortium (Public Library of Science, 2013)
      Background: Mild retinopathy (microaneurysms or dot-blot hemorrhages) is observed in persons without diabetes or hypertension and may reflect microvascular disease in other organs. We conducted a genome-wide association ...

    • Genome-wide identification of microRNA-related variants associated with risk of Alzheimer’s disease 

      Ghanbari, Mohsen; Ikram, M. Arfan; de Looper, Hans W. J.; Hofman, Albert; Erkeland, Stefan J.; Franco, Oscar H.; Dehghan, Abbas (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      MicroRNAs (miRNAs) serve as key post-transcriptional regulators of gene expression. Genetic variation in miRNAs and miRNA-binding sites may affect miRNA function and contribute to disease risk. Here, we investigated the ...

    • Genome-Wide Joint Meta-Analysis of SNP and SNP-by-Smoking Interaction Identifies Novel Loci for Pulmonary Function 

      Hancock, Dana B.; Artigas, María Soler; Gharib, Sina A.; Henry, Amanda; Manichaikul, Ani; Ramasamy, Adaikalavan; Loth, Daan W.; Imboden, Medea; Koch, Beate; McArdle, Wendy L.; Smith, Albert V.; Smolonska, Joanna; Sood, Akshay; Tang, Wenbo; Zhai, Guangju; Burkart, Kristin M.; Curjuric, Ivan; Eijgelsheim, Mark; Elliott, Paul; Gu, Xiangjun; Harris, Tamara B.; Janson, Christer; Homuth, Georg; Hysi, Pirro G.; Loehr, Laura R.; Lohman, Kurt; Loos, Ruth J. F.; Marciante, Kristin D.; Obeidat, Ma'en; Postma, Dirkje S.; Aldrich, Melinda C.; Brusselle, Guy G.; Eiriksdottir, Gudny; Franceschini, Nora; Heinrich, Joachim; Rotter, Jerome I.; Wijmenga, Cisca; Bentley, Amy R.; Laurie, Cathy C.; Lumley, Thomas; Morrison, Alanna C.; Joubert, Bonnie R.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Couper, David J.; Kritchevsky, Stephen B.; Liu, Yongmei; Wjst, Matthias; Wain, Louise V.; Vonk, Judith M.; Uitterlinden, André G.; Rochat, Thierry; Rich, Stephen S.; Psaty, Bruce M.; O'Connor, George T.; North, Kari E.; Mirel, Daniel B.; Meibohm, Bernd; Launer, Lenore J.; Khaw, Kay-Tee; Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa; Hammond, Christopher J.; Gläser, Sven; Marchini, Jonathan; Wareham, Nicholas J.; Völzke, Henry; Stricker, Bruno H. C.; Spector, Timothy D.; Probst-Hensch, Nicole M.; Jarvis, Deborah; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Heckbert, Susan R.; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Boezen, H. Marike; Barr, R. Graham; Cassano, Patricia A.; Strachan, David P.; Fornage, Myriam; Hall, Ian P.; Dupuis, Josée; Tobin, Martin D.; London, Stephanie J.; Wilk, Jemma B; Zhao, Jing Hua; Aschard, Hugues; Liu, Jason Z.; Manning, Alisa K; Chen, Ting-Hsu; Williams, O. Dale; Kraft, Phillip L.; Hofman, Albert (Public Library of Science, 2012)
      Genome-wide association studies have identified numerous genetic loci for spirometic measures of pulmonary function, forced expiratory volume in one second \((FEV_1)\), and its ratio to forced vital capacity \((FEV_1/FVC)\). ...

    • Genome-wide study of risk tolerance and risky behaviors reveals shared genetic influences 

      Karlsson Linner, Richard; Biroli, Pietro; Kong, Edward; Meddens, S. Fleur W.; Wedow, Robbee; Fontana, Mark Alan; Lebreton, Mael; Abdellaoui, Abdel; Hammerschlag, Anke R.; Nivard, Michel G.; Okbay, Aysu; Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Timshel, Pascal N.; Tino, Stephen P.; Trzaskowski, Maciej; de Vlaming, Ronald; Zund, Christian L.; Bao, Yanchun; Buzdugan, Laura; Caplin, Ann H.; Chen, Chia-Yen; Eibich, Peter; Fontanillas, Pierre; Joshi, Peter K.; Karhunen, Ville; Kleinman, Aaron; Levin, Remy Z.; Lill, Christina M.; Meddens, Gerardus A.; Muntane, Gerard; Sanchez-Roige, Sandra; Gonzalez, Juan Ramon; van Rooij, Frank J.; Taskesen, Erdogan; Wu, Yang; Zhang, Futao; Auton, Adam; Boardman, Jason D.; Clark, David W.; Conlin, Andrew; Dolan, Conor C.; Fischbacher, Urs; Groenen, Patrick J. F.; Harris, Kathleen Mullan; Hasler, Gregor; Hofman, Albert; Ikram, Mohammad A.; Jain, Sonia; Karlsson, Robert; MacKillop, James; Mannikko, Minna; Morcillo-Suarez, Carlos; McQueen, Matthew B.; Schmidt, Klaus M.; Smart, Melissa C.; Sutter, Matthias; Thurik, A. Roy; Uitterlinden, Andre G.; White, Jon; de Wit, Harriet; Yang, Jian; Bertram, Lars; Boomsma, Dorret; Esko, Tonu; Fehr, Ernst; Hinds, David A.; Johannesson, Magnus; Kumari, Meena; Laibson, David; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Meyer, Michelle N.; Navarro, Arcadi; Palmer, Abraham A.; Pers, Tune H.; Posthuma, Danielle; Schunk, Daniel; Stein, Murray B.; Svento, Rauli; Tiemeier, Henning; Timmers, Paul R. H. J.; Turley, Patrick; Ursano, Robert J.; Wagner, Gert G.; Wilson, James F.; Gratten, Jacob; Lee, James J.; Cesarini, David; Benjamin, Daniel J.; Koellinger, Philipp D.; Beauchamp, Jonathan P. (Springer-Nature, 2017)
      Risk tolerance is an important variable in the behavioral and social sciences and one of the most studied phenotypes in social science genetics, but few genetic variants have so far been found to robustly associate with ...

    • GWAS of 126,559 Individuals Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Educational Attainment 

      Rietveld, Cornelius A.; Medland, Sarah E.; Derringer, Jaime; Yang, Jian; Esko, Tonu; Martin, Nicolas W.; Westra, Harm-Jan; Shakhbazov, Konstantin; Abdellaoui, Abdel; Agrawal, Arpana; Albrecht, Eva; Alizadeh, Behrooz Z.; Amin, Najaf; Barnard, John; Baumeister, Sebastian E.; Benke, Kelly S.; Bielak, Lawrence F.; Boatman, Jeffrey A.; Boyle, Patricia A.; Davies, Gail; de Leeuw, Christiaan; Eklund, Niina; Evans, Daniel S.; Ferhmann, Rudolf; Fischer, Krista; Gieger, Christian; Gjessing, Håkon K.; Hagg, Sara; Harris, Jennifer R.; Hayward, Caroline; Holzapfel, Christina; Ibrahim-Verbaas, Carla A.; Ingelsson, Erik; Jacobsson, Bo; Joshi, Peter K.; Jugessur, Astanand; Kaakinen, Marika; Kanoni, Stavroula; Karjalainen, Juha; Kolcic, Ivana; Kristiansson, Kati; Kutalik, Zoltán; Lahti, Jari; Lee, Sang H.; Lin, Peng; Lind, Penelope A.; Liu, Yongmei; Lohman, Kurt; Loitfelder, Marisa; McMahon, George; Vidal, Pedro Marques; Meirelles, Osorio; Milani, Lili; Myhre, Ronny; Nuotio, Marja-Liisa; Oldmeadow, Christopher J.; Petrovic, Katja E.; Peyrot, Wouter J.; Polašek, Ozren; Quaye, Lydia; Reinmaa, Eva; Rice, John P.; Rizzi, Thais S.; Schmidt, Helena; Schmidt, Reinhold; Smith, Albert V.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Tanaka, Toshiko; Terracciano, Antonio; van der Loos, Matthijs J. H. M.; Vitart, Veronique; Völzke, Henry; Wellmann, Jürgen; Yu, Lei; Zhao, Wei; Allik, Jüri; Attia, John R.; Bandinelli, Stefania; Bastardot, François; Beauchamp, Jonathan; Bennett, David A.; Berger, Klaus; Bierut, Laura J.; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Bültmann, Ute; Campbell, Harry; Chabris, Christopher; Cherkas, Lynn; Chung, Mina K.; Cucca, Francesco; de Andrade, Mariza; De Jager, Philip Lawrence; De Neve, Jan-Emmanuel; Deary, Ian J.; Dedoussis, George V.; Deloukas, Panos; Dimitriou, Maria; Eiríksdóttir, Guðný; Elderson, Martin F.; Eriksson, Johan G.; Evans, David M.; Faul, Jessica D.; Ferrucci, Luigi; Garcia, Melissa E.; Grönberg, Henrik; Guðnason, Vilmundur; Hall, Per; Harris, Juliette M.; Harris, Tamara B.; Hastie, Nicholas D.; Heath, Andrew C.; Hernandez, Dena G.; Hoffmann, Wolfgang; Hofman, Adriaan; Holle, Rolf; Holliday, Elizabeth G.; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Iacono, William G.; Illig, Thomas; Järvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Kähönen, Mika; Kaprio, Jaakko; Kirkpatrick, Robert M.; Kowgier, Matthew; Latvala, Antti; Launer, Lenore J.; Lawlor, Debbie A.; Lehtimäki, Terho; Li, Jingmei; Lichtenstein, Paul; Lichtner, Peter; Liewald, David C.; Madden, Pamela A.; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Makinen, Tomi E.; Masala, Marco; McGue, Matt; Metspalu, Andres; Mielck, Andreas; Miller, Michael B.; Montgomery, Grant W.; Mukherjee, Sutapa; Nyholt, Dale R.; Oostra, Ben A.; Palmer, Lyle J.; Palotie, Aarno; Penninx, Brenda W. J. H.; Perola, Markus; Peyser, Patricia A.; Preisig, Martin; Räikkönen, Katri; Raitakari, Olli T.; Realo, Anu; Ring, Susan M.; Ripatti, Samuli; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Rudan, Igor; Rustichini, Aldo; Salomaa, Veikko; Sarin, Antti-Pekka; Schlessinger, David; Scott, Rodney J.; Snieder, Harold; St Pourcain, Beate; Starr, John M.; Sul, Jae Hoon; Surakka, Ida; Svento, Rauli; Teumer, Alexander; Tiemeier, Henning; van Rooij, Frank J. A.; Van Wagoner, David R.; Vartiainen, Erkki; Viikari, Jorma; Vollenweider, Peter; Vonk, Judith M.; Waeber, Gérard; Weir, David R.; Wichmann, H.-Erich; Widen, Elisabeth; Willemsen, Gonneke; Wilson, James F.; Wright, Alan F.; Conley, Dalton; Davey-Smith, George; Franke, Lude; Groenen, Patrick J. F.; Hofman, Albert; Johannesson, Magnus; Kardia, Sharon L. R.; Krueger, Robert F.; Laibson, David I.; Martin, Nicholas G.; Meyer, Michelle N.; Posthuma, Danielle; Thurik, A. Roy; Timpson, Nicholas J.; Uitterlinden, André G.; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; Visscher, Peter M.; Benjamin, Daniel J.; Cesarini, David; Koellinger, Philipp D. (American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2013)
      A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of educational attainment was conducted in a discovery sample of 101,069 individuals and a replication sample of 25,490. Three independent single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are ...

    • Heritability of the shape of subcortical brain structures in the general population 

      Roshchupkin, Gennady V.; Gutman, Boris A.; Vernooij, Meike W.; Jahanshad, Neda; Martin, Nicholas G.; Hofman, Albert; McMahon, Katie L.; van der Lee, Sven J.; van Duijn, Cornelia M.; de Zubicaray, Greig I.; Uitterlinden, André G.; Wright, Margaret J.; Niessen, Wiro J.; Thompson, Paul M.; Ikram, M. Arfan; Adams, Hieab H. H. (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)
      The volumes of subcortical brain structures are highly heritable, but genetic underpinnings of their shape remain relatively obscure. Here we determine the relative contribution of genetic factors to individual variation ...

    • An Integration of Genome-Wide Association Study and Gene Expression Profiling to Prioritize the Discovery of Novel Susceptibility Loci for Osteoporosis-Related Traits 

      Zillikens, M. Carola; Farber, Charles R.; Demissie, Serkalem; Soranzo, Nicole; Bianchi, Estelle N.; Grundberg, Elin; Estrada, Karol; Zhou, Yanhua; van Nas, Atila; Moffatt, Miriam F.; Zhai, Guangju; van Meurs, Joyce B.; Pols, Huibert A. P.; Price, Roger I.; Nilsson, Olle; Pastinen, Tomi; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Lusis, Aldons J.; Schadt, Eric E.; Ferrari, Serge; Uitterlinden, André G.; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Spector, Timothy D.; Hsu, Yi Hsiang; Wilson, Scott G.; Liang, Liming; Hofman, Albert; Richards, J. Brent; Karasik, David; Kiel, Douglas P. (Public Library of Science, 2010)
      Osteoporosis is a complex disorder and commonly leads to fractures in elderly persons. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become an unbiased approach to identify variations in the genome that potentially affect ...