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    • A positively selected FBN1 missense variant reduces height in Peruvian individuals 

      Asgari, Samira; Luo, Yang; Akbari, Ali; Belbin, Gillian M.; Li, Xinyi; Harris, Daniel N.; Selig, Martin; Bartell, Eric; Calderon, Roger; Slowikowski, Kamil; Contreras, Carmen; Yataco, Rosa; Galea, Jerome; Jimenez, Judith; Coit, Julia; Farroñay, Chandel; Nazarian, Rosalynn; O’Connor, Timothy D.; Dietz, Harry C.; Hirschhorn, Joel; Guio, Heinner; Lecca, Leonid; Kenny, Eimear E.; Freeman, Esther E.; Murray, Megan B.; Raychaudhuri, Soumya; Murray (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-05-13)
      On average, the Peruvian population is among the shortest in the world1. Here we show that Native American ancestry is associated with reduced height in an ethnically diverse group of Peruvians, and identify a novel, ...