Publication: Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture
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2014
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Berndt, S. I., S. Gustafsson, R. Mägi, A. Ganna, E. Wheeler, M. F. Feitosa, A. E. Justice, et al. 2014. “Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture.” Nature genetics 45 (5): 501-512. doi:10.1038/ng.2606. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ng.2606.
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Approaches exploiting extremes of the trait distribution may reveal novel loci for common traits, but it is unknown whether such loci are generalizable to the general population. In a genome-wide search for loci associated with upper vs. lower 5th percentiles of body mass index, height and waist-hip ratio, as well as clinical classes of obesity including up to 263,407 European individuals, we identified four new loci (IGFBP4, H6PD, RSRC1, PPP2R2A) influencing height detected in the tails and seven new loci (HNF4G, RPTOR, GNAT2, MRPS33P4, ADCY9, HS6ST3, ZZZ3) for clinical classes of obesity. Further, we show that there is large overlap in terms of genetic structure and distribution of variants between traits based on extremes and the general population and little etiologic heterogeneity between obesity subgroups.
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