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A common variant of HMGA2 is associated with adult and childhood height in the general population

In English

Författare

  • Michael N. Weedon
  • Guillaume Lettre
  • Rachel M. Freathy
  • Cecilia M. Lindgren
  • Benjamin F. Voight
  • John R. B. Perry
  • Katherine S. Elliott
  • Rachel Hackett
  • Candace Guiducci
  • Beverley Shields
  • Eleftheria Zeggini
  • Hana Lango
  • Valeriya Lyssenko
  • Nicholas J. Timpson
  • Noel P. Burtt
  • Nigel W. Rayner
  • Richa Saxena
  • Kristin Ardlie
  • Jonathan H. Tobias
  • Andrew R. Ness
  • Susan M. Ring
  • Colin N. A. Palmer
  • Andrew D. Morris
  • Leena Peltonen
  • Veikko Salomaa
  • George Davey Smith
  • Leif Groop
  • Andrew T. Hattersley
  • Mark I. McCarthy
  • Joel N. Hirschhorn
  • Timothy M. Frayling
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Summary, in English

Human height is a classic, highly heritable quantitative trait. To begin to identify genetic variants influencing height, we examined genome-wide association data from 4,921 individuals. Common variants in the HMGA2 oncogene, exemplified by rs1042725, were associated with height (P= 4x10(-8)). HMGA2 is also a strong biological candidate for height, as rare, severe mutations in this gene alter body size in mice and humans, so we tested rs1042725 in additional samples. We confirmed the association in 19,064 adults from four further studies (P= 3x10(-11), overall P= 4x10(-16), including the genome-wide association data). We also observed the association in children (P=1x 10(-6), N= 6,827) and a tall/short case-control study (P= 4x10(-6), N=3,207). We estimate that rs1042725 explains similar to 0.3% of population variation in height (similar to 0.4 cm increased adult height per C allele). There are few examples of common genetic variants reproducibly associated with human quantitative traits; these results represent, to our knowledge, the first consistently replicated association with adult and childhood height.

Publiceringsår

2007

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1245-1250

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Nature Genetics

Volym

39

Issue

10

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Nature Publishing Group

Ämne

  • Endocrinology and Diabetes

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Translational Muscle Research

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1546-1718