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Whole-exome imputation of sequence variants identified two novel alleles associated with adult body height in African Americans

Authors :
Yii-Der Ida Chen
Nancy L. Heard-Costa
James G. Wilson
Jeffrey Haessler
Stephanie A. Rosse
Paul L. Auer
Mengmeng Du
Nora Franceschini
Rebecca D. Jackson
Ulrike Peters
Keith R. Curtis
Kari E. North
Deborah A. Nickerson
Guillaume Lettre
Keri L. Monda
Alexander P. Reiner
Cara L. Carty
Shuo Jiao
Christopher S. Carlson
Leslie A. Lange
Stephen S. Rich
Li Hsu
Cristen J. Willer
Jerome I. Rotter
Charles Kooperberg
David Altshuler
Eric Boerwinkle
Source :
Human Molecular Genetics. 23:6607-6615
Publication Year :
2014
Publisher :
Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014.

Abstract

Adult body height is a quantitative trait for which genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified numerous loci, primarily in European populations. These loci, comprising common variants, explain

Details

ISSN :
14602083 and 09646906
Volume :
23
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Human Molecular Genetics
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....c856dca4fd480e9ea4147794cc6fdfe2
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddu361