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Alan F. Wright
Researcher at University of Edinburgh
Publications - 281
Citations - 30852
Alan F. Wright is an academic researcher from University of Edinburgh. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Retinitis pigmentosa. The author has an hindex of 85, co-authored 281 publications receiving 28560 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan F. Wright include Western Infirmary & Western General Hospital.
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Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology
Adam E. Locke,Bratati Kahali,Sonja I. Berndt,Anne E. Justice,Tune H. Pers,Felix R. Day,Corey Powell,Sailaja Vedantam,Martin L. Buchkovich,Jian Yang,Damien C. Croteau-Chonka,Tõnu Esko,Tove Fall,Teresa Ferreira,Stefan Gustafsson,Zoltán Kutalik,Jian'an Luan,Reedik Mägi,Joshua C. Randall,Thomas W. Winkler,Andrew R. Wood,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Jessica D. Faul,Jennifer A. Smith,Jing Hua Zhao,Wei Zhao,Jin Chen,Rudolf S N Fehrmann,Åsa K. Hedman,Juha Karjalainen,Ellen M. Schmidt,Devin Absher,Najaf Amin,Denise Anderson,Marian Beekman,Jennifer L. Bolton,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Steven Buyske,Ayse Demirkan,Guohong Deng,Georg Ehret,Bjarke Feenstra,Mary F. Feitosa,Krista Fischer,Anuj Goel,Jian Gong,Anne U. Jackson,Stavroula Kanoni,Marcus E. Kleber,Kati Kristiansson,Unhee Lim,Vaneet Lotay,Massimo Mangino,Irene Mateo Leach,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Sarah E. Medland,Mike A. Nalls,Cameron D. Palmer,Dorota Pasko,Sonali Pechlivanis,Marjolein Peters,Inga Prokopenko,Dmitry Shungin,Alena Stančáková,Rona J. Strawbridge,Yun Ju Sung,Toshiko Tanaka,Alexander Teumer,Stella Trompet,Sander W. van der Laan,Jessica van Setten,Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,Zhaoming Wang,Loic Yengo,Weihua Zhang,Aaron Isaacs,Eva Albrecht,Johan Ärnlöv,Gillian M. Arscott,Antony P. Attwood,Stefania Bandinelli,Amy Barrett,Isabelita Bas,Claire Bellis,Amanda J. Bennett,Christian Berne,Roza Blagieva,Matthias Blüher,Stefan Böhringer,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Yvonne Böttcher,Heather A. Boyd,Marcel Bruinenberg,Ida Henriette Caspersen,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Robert Clarke,E. Warwick Daw,Anton J. M. de Craen,Graciela E. Delgado,Maria Dimitriou,Alex S. F. Doney,Niina Eklund,Karol Estrada,Elodie Eury,Lasse Folkersen,Ross M. Fraser,Melissa E. Garcia,Frank Geller,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Bruna Gigante,Alan S. Go,Alain Golay,Alison H. Goodall,Scott D. Gordon,Mathias Gorski,Hans-Jörgen Grabe,Harald Grallert,Tanja B. Grammer,Jürgen Gräßler,Henrik Grönberg,Christopher J. Groves,Gaëlle Gusto,Jeffrey Haessler,Per Hall,Toomas Haller,Göran Hallmans,Catharina A. Hartman,Maija Hassinen,Caroline Hayward,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Quinta Helmer,Christian Hengstenberg,Oddgeir L. Holmen,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Alan James,Janina M. Jeff,Åsa Johansson,Jennifer Jolley,Thorhildur Juliusdottir,Leena Kinnunen,Wolfgang Koenig,Markku Koskenvuo,Wolfgang Kratzer,Jaana Laitinen,Claudia Lamina,Karin Leander,Nanette R. Lee,Peter Lichtner,Lars Lind,Jaana Lindström,Ken Sin Lo,Stéphane Lobbens,Roberto Lorbeer,Yingchang Lu,François Mach,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Anubha Mahajan,Wendy L. McArdle,Stela McLachlan,Cristina Menni,Sigrun Merger,Evelin Mihailov,Lili Milani,Alireza Moayyeri,Keri L. Monda,Mario A. Morken,Antonella Mulas,Gabriele Müller,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Arthur W. Musk,Ramaiah Nagaraja,Markus M. Nöthen,Ilja M. Nolte,Stefan Pilz,Nigel W. Rayner,Frida Renström,Rainer Rettig,Janina S. Ried,Stephan Ripke,Neil R. Robertson,Lynda M. Rose,Serena Sanna,Hubert Scharnagl,Salome Scholtens,Fredrick R. Schumacher,William R. Scott,Thomas Seufferlein,Jianxin Shi,Albert V. Smith,Joanna Smolonska,Alice Stanton,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Kathleen Stirrups,Heather M. Stringham,Johan Sundström,Morris A. Swertz,Amy J. Swift,Ann-Christine Syvänen,Sian-Tsung Tan,Bamidele O. Tayo,Barbara Thorand,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Jonathan Tyrer,Hae-Won Uh,Liesbeth Vandenput,Frank C. Verhulst,Sita H. Vermeulen,Niek Verweij,Judith M. Vonk,Lindsay L. Waite,Helen R. Warren,Dawn M. Waterworth,Michael N. Weedon,Lynne R. Wilkens,Christina Willenborg,Tom Wilsgaard,Mary K. Wojczynski,Andrew Wong,Alan F. Wright,Qunyuan Zhang,Eoin P. Brennan,Murim Choi,Zari Dastani,Alexander W. Drong,Per Eriksson,Anders Franco-Cereceda,Jesper R. Gådin,Ali G. Gharavi,Michael E. Goddard,Robert E. Handsaker,Jinyan Huang,Fredrik Karpe,Sekar Kathiresan,Sarah Keildson,Krzysztof Kiryluk,Michiaki Kubo,Jong-Young Lee,Liming Liang,Richard P. Lifton,Baoshan Ma,Steven A. McCarroll,Amy Jayne McKnight,Josine L. Min,Miriam F. Moffatt,Grant W. Montgomery,Joanne M. Murabito,George Nicholson,Dale R. Nyholt,Yukinori Okada,John R. B. Perry,Rajkumar Dorajoo,Eva Reinmaa,Rany M. Salem,Niina Sandholm,Robert A. Scott,Lisette Stolk,Atsushi Takahashi,Toshihiro Tanaka,Ferdinand M. van't Hooft,Anna A. E. Vinkhuyzen,Harm-Jan Westra,Wei Zheng,Krina T. Zondervan,Andrew C. Heath,Dominique Arveiler,Stephan J. L. Bakker,John Beilby,Richard N. Bergman,John Blangero,Pascal Bovet,Harry Campbell,Mark J. Caulfield,Giancarlo Cesana,Aravinda Chakravarti,Daniel I. Chasman,Peter S. Chines,Francis S. Collins,Dana C. Crawford,L. Adrienne Cupples,Daniele Cusi,John Danesh,Ulf de Faire,Hester M. den Ruijter,Anna F. Dominiczak,Raimund Erbel,Jeanette Erdmann,Johan G. Eriksson,Martin Farrall,Stephan B. Felix,Ele Ferrannini,Jean Ferrières,Ian Ford,Nita G. Forouhi,Terrence Forrester,Oscar H. Franco,Ron T. Gansevoort,Pablo V. Gejman,Christian Gieger,Omri Gottesman,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,Alistair S. Hall,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Andrew A. Hicks,Lucia A. Hindorff,Aroon D. Hingorani,Albert Hofman,Georg Homuth,G. Kees Hovingh,Steve E. Humphries,Steven C. Hunt,Elina Hyppönen,Thomas Illig,Kevin B. Jacobs,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Berit Johansen,Pekka Jousilahti,J. Wouter Jukema,Antti Jula,Jaakko Kaprio,John J.P. Kastelein,Sirkka Keinänen-Kiukaanniemi,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Paul Knekt,Jaspal S. Kooner,Charles Kooperberg,Peter Kovacs,Aldi T. Kraja,Meena Kumari,Johanna Kuusisto,Timo A. Lakka,Claudia Langenberg,Loic Le Marchand,Terho Lehtimäki,Valeriya Lyssenko,Satu Männistö,André Marette,Tara C. Matise,Colin A. McKenzie,Barbara McKnight,Frans L. Moll,Andrew D. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Jeffrey C. Murray,Mari Nelis,Claes Ohlsson,Albertine J. Oldehinkel,Ken K. Ong,Pamela A. F. Madden,Gerard Pasterkamp,John F. Peden,Annette Peters,Dirkje S. Postma,Peter P. Pramstaller,Jackie F. Price,Lu Qi,Olli T. Raitakari,Tuomo Rankinen,Dabeeru C. Rao,Treva Rice,Paul M. Ridker,John D. Rioux,Marylyn D. Ritchie,Igor Rudan,Veikko Salomaa,Nilesh J. Samani,Jouko Saramies,Mark A. Sarzynski,Heribert Schunkert,Peter Schwarz,Peter S. Sever,Alan R. Shuldiner,Juha Sinisalo,Ronald P. Stolk,Konstantin Strauch,Anke Tönjes,David-Alexandre Trégouët,Angelo Tremblay,Elena Tremoli,Jarmo Virtamo,Marie-Claude Vohl,Uwe Völker,Gérard Waeber,Gonneke Willemsen,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,M. Carola Zillikens,Linda S. Adair,Philippe Amouyel,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Themistocles L. Assimes,Murielle Bochud,Bernhard O. Boehm,Eric Boerwinkle,Stefan R. Bornstein,Erwin P. Bottinger,Claude Bouchard,Stéphane Cauchi,John C. Chambers,Stephen J. Chanock,Richard S. Cooper,Paul I.W. de Bakker,George Dedoussis,Luigi Ferrucci,Paul W. Franks,Philippe Froguel,Leif Groop,Christopher A. Haiman,Anders Hamsten,Jennie Hui,David J. Hunter,Kristian Hveem,Robert C. Kaplan,Mika Kivimäki,Diana Kuh,Markku Laakso,Yongmei Liu,Nicholas G. Martin,Winfried März,Mads Melbye,Andres Metspalu,Susanne Moebus,Patricia B. Munroe,Inger Njølstad,Ben A. Oostra,Colin N. A. Palmer,Nancy L. Pedersen,Markus Perola,Louis Pérusse,Ulrike Peters,Chris Power,Thomas Quertermous,Rainer Rauramaa,Fernando Rivadeneira,Timo Saaristo,Danish Saleheen,Naveed Sattar,Eric E. Schadt,David Schlessinger,P. Eline Slagboom,Harold Snieder,Tim D. Spector,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Michael Stumvoll,Jaakko Tuomilehto,André G. Uitterlinden,Matti Uusitupa,Pim van der Harst,Mark Walker,Henri Wallaschofski,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,David R. Weir,H-Erich Wichmann,James F. Wilson,Pieter Zanen,Ingrid B. Borecki,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Iris M. Heid,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,David P. Strachan,Kari Stefansson,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Lude Franke,Timothy M. Frayling,Mark I. McCarthy,Peter M. Visscher,André Scherag,Cristen J. Willer,Michael Boehnke,Karen L. Mohlke,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Jacques S. Beckmann,Inês Barroso,Kari E. North,Erik Ingelsson,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Ruth J. F. Loos,Elizabeth K. Speliotes +481 more
TL;DR: This paper conducted a genome-wide association study and meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals.
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New genetic loci implicated in fasting glucose homeostasis and their impact on type 2 diabetes risk (vol 42, pg 105, 2010)
Josée Dupuis,Claudia Langenberg,Inga Prokopenko,Richa Saxena,Nicole Soranzo,Anne U. Jackson,Eleanor Wheeler,Nicole L. Glazer,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Anna L. Gloyn,C M Lindgren,Reedik Mägi,Andrew P. Morris,Joshua C. Randall,Toby Johnson,Peter J. Elliott,D Rybin,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Steinthorsdottir,Peter Henneman,H Grallert,Abbas Dehghan,J-J Hottenga,Christopher S. Franklin,Pau Navarro,KJ Song,Anuj Goel,Jrb Perry,Josephine M. Egan,Taina K. Lajunen,Niels Grarup,Thomas Sparsø,Alex S. F. Doney,B F Voight,Heather M. Stringham,Man Li,Stavroula Kanoni,Peter Shrader,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Meena Kumari,Lu Qi,N J Timpson,Christian Gieger,Carina Zabena,Ghislain Rocheleau,Erik Ingelsson,Ping An,Jeffery R. O'Connell,Jian'an Luan,Amanda F. Elliott,Steve McCarroll,Felicity Payne,Rosa Maria Roccasecca,François Pattou,Praveen Sethupathy,Kristin G. Ardlie,Yavuz Ariyurek,B. Balkau,Philip J. Barter,John Beilby,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Rafn Benediktsson,Amanda J. Bennett,Sven Bergmann,Murielle Bochud,Eric Boerwinkle,Amélie Bonnefond,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Knut Borch-Johnsen,Yvonne Böttcher,Eric J. Brunner,Suzannah Bumpstead,Guillaume Charpentier,Ydi Chen,Peter S. Chines,Robert Clarke,Ljm Coin,Mark E. Cooper,Marilyn C. Cornelis,Gabriel Crawford,Laura Crisponi,Inm Day,Ejc de Geus,Jérôme Delplanque,Christian Dina,Erdos,A C Fedson,Antje Fischer-Rosinsky,Nita G. Forouhi,Caroline S. Fox,Rune R. Frants,MariaGrazia Franzosi,Pilar Galan,Mark O. Goodarzi,J. Graessler,C J Groves,Scott M. Grundy,R. Gwilliam,Ulf Gyllensten,Samy Hadjadj,Göran Hallmans,Naomi Hammond,Xijing Han,A.-L. Hartikainen,N Hassanali,Caroline Hayward,Simon C. Heath,Serge Hercberg,Christian Herder,Andrew A. Hicks,Hillman,Aroon D. Hingorani,A. Hofman,Jennie Hui,Joseph Hung,Bo Isomaa,Prv Johnson,Torben Jørgensen,A. Jula,Marika Kaakinen,J Kaprio,Y A Kesaniemi,Mika Kivimäki,Beatrice Knight,Seppo Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Kirsten Ohm Kyvik,G. M. Lathrop,Debbie A Lawlor,O Le Bacquer,C. Lecoeur,Yun Li,Lyssenko,Robert W. Mahley,Massimo Mangino,Alisa K. Manning,María Teresa Martínez-Larrad,Jarred B. McAteer,Laura J. McCulloch,Ruth McPherson,Christine Meisinger,David Melzer,David Meyre,Braxton D. Mitchell,M. A. Morken,Sutapa Mukherjee,Silvia Naitza,Narisu Narisu,Matt J. Neville,Ben A. Oostra,Marco Orrù,Ruth E. Pakyz,Cna Palmer,Giuseppe Paolisso,Cristian Pattaro,Daniel S. Pearson,J F Peden,Nancy L. Pedersen,M. Perola,Afh Pfeiffer,Irene Pichler,Ozren Polasek,Danielle Posthuma,Simon C. Potter,A Pouta,M. A. Province,Bruce M. Psaty,Wolfgang Rathmann,N W Rayner,Kenneth Rice,S. Ripatti,Fernando Rivadeneira,Michael Roden,Olov Rolandsson,A. Sandbaek,M. S. Sandhu,Serena Sanna,Avan Aihie Sayer,Paul Scheet,Laura J. Scott,Udo Seedorf,Stephen J. Sharp,B M Shields,G Sigurosson,Ejg Sijbrands,Angela Silveira,Laila Simpson,AB Singleton,Nicholas L. Smith,Ulla Sovio,Amy J. Swift,Holly E. Syddall,Ann-Christine Syvänen,Toshiko Tanaka,Barbara Thorand,Jean Tichet,A Tönjes,Tiinamaija Tuomi,A.G. Uitterlinden,K W van Dijk,M. van Hoek,Dhiraj Varma,Sophie Visvikis-Siest,Vitart,Nicole Vogelzangs,G. Waeber,P J Wagner,Andrew Walley,G B Walters,Kim L. Ward,Hugh Watkins,Michael N. Weedon,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Jcm Witteman,Jwg Yarnell,E Zeggini,Diana Zelenika,Björn Zethelius,Guangju Zhai,Jing Hua Zhao,M. C. Zillikens,Ingrid B. Borecki,Rjf Loos,Pierre Meneton,Pke Magnusson,David M. Nathan,Gordon H. Williams,Andrew T. Hattersley,Kaisa Silander,Salomaa,George Davey Smith,Bornstein,Peter Schwarz,Jochen Spranger,F Karpe,A. R. Shuldiner,Cyrus Cooper,George Dedoussis,Manuel Serrano-Ríos,Andrew D. Morris,Lars Lind,Lyle J. Palmer,Frank B. Hu,Paul W. Franks,S Ebrahim,Michael Marmot,Whl Kao,James S. Pankow,Mike Sampson,Johanna Kuusisto,Markku Laakso,T. Hansen,Oluf Pedersen,Peter P. Pramstaller,Heinz Erich Wichmann,Thomas Illig,Igor Rudan,Alan F. Wright,Michael Stumvoll,Harry Campbell,James F. Wilson,Anders Hamsten,Richard N. Bergman,Thomas A. Buchanan,F. S. Collins,Karen L. Mohlke,J. Tuomilehto,Valle Tt,David Altshuler,Jerome I. Rotter,David S. Siscovick,Bwjh Penninx,D.I. Boomsma,Panagiotis Deloukas,Tim D. Spector,Timothy M. Frayling,L Ferrucci,Augustine Kong,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Kari Stefansson,C M van Duijn,Y S Aulchenko,Anyuan Cao,Angelo Scuteri,David Schlessinger,Manuela Uda,Aimo Ruokonen,Jarvelin,Dawn M. Waterworth,Peter Vollenweider,Leena Peltonen,Mooser,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Nicholas J. Wareham,Robert Sladek,Philippe Froguel,Richard M. Watanabe,James B. Meigs,Leif Groop,Michael Boehnke,Mark I. McCarthy,Jose C. Florez,Ines Barroso Magic Investigators +303 more
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Complement C3 Variant and the Risk of Age-Related Macular Degeneration
John R.W. Yates,T. Sepp,Baljinder K Matharu,Jane C. Khan,D A Thurlby,Humma Shahid,David Clayton,Caroline Hayward,Joanne E. Morgan,Alan F. Wright,Ana Maria Armbrecht,Baljean Dhillon,Ian J. Deary,E Redmond,Alan C. Bird,Anthony T. Moore +15 more
TL;DR: The common functional polymorphism rs2230199 in the C3 gene, corresponding to the electrophoretic variants C3S and C3F, was strongly associated with age-related macular degeneration in both the English group and the Scottish group and underscores the influence of the complement pathway in the pathogenesis of this disease.
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Seven new loci associated with age-related macular degeneration
Lars G. Fritsche,Lars G. Fritsche,Wei Chen,Wei Chen,Matthew Schu,Brian L. Yaspan,Yi Yu,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Donald J. Zack,Donald J. Zack,Satoshi Arakawa,Valentina Cipriani,Valentina Cipriani,Stephan Ripke,Stephan Ripke,Robert P. Igo,Gabriëlle H.S. Buitendijk,Xueling Sim,Xueling Sim,Daniel E. Weeks,Robyn H. Guymer,Joanna E. Merriam,Peter J. Francis,Gregory Hannum,Anita Agarwal,Ana Maria Armbrecht,Isabelle Audo,Tin Aung,Tin Aung,Gaetano R. Barile,Mustapha Benchaboune,Alan C. Bird,Alan C. Bird,Paul N. Bishop,Kari Branham,Matthew Brooks,Alexander J. Brucker,William Cade,Melinda Cain,Peter A. Campochiaro,Chi-Chao Chan,Ching-Yu Cheng,Ching-Yu Cheng,Emily Y. Chew,Kimberly A Chin,Itay Chowers,David Clayton,Radu Cojocaru,Yvette P. Conley,Belinda K. Cornes,Mark J. Daly,Baljean Dhillon,Albert O. Edwards,Evangelos Evangelou,Jesen Fagerness,Jesen Fagerness,Henry Ferreyra,James S. Friedman,Asbjorg Geirsdottir,Ronnie George,Christian Gieger,Neel Gupta,Stephanie A. Hagstrom,Simon P. Harding,Christos Haritoglou,John R. Heckenlively,Frank G. Holz,Guy Hughes,John P. A. Ioannidis,Tatsuro Ishibashi,Peronne Joseph,Gyungah Jun,Yoichiro Kamatani,Nicholas Katsanis,Claudia N. Keilhauer,Jane C. Khan,Jane C. Khan,Jane C. Khan,Ivana K. Kim,Yutaka Kiyohara,Barbara E.K. Klein,Ronald Klein,Jaclyn L. Kovach,Igor Kozak,Clara Lee,Kristine E. Lee,Peter Lichtner,Andrew J. Lotery,Thomas Meitinger,Paul Mitchell,Saddek Mohand-Said,Anthony T. Moore,Anthony T. Moore,Denise J. Morgan,Margaux A. Morrison,Chelsea E. Myers,Adam C. Naj,Yusuke Nakamura,Yukinori Okada,Anton Orlin,M. Carolina Ortube,Mohammad Othman,Chris Pappas,Kyu Hyung Park,Gayle J.T. Pauer,Neal S. Peachey,Neal S. Peachey,Olivier Poch,Rinki Ratna Priya,Robyn Reynolds,Andrea J. Richardson,Raymond Ripp,G. Rudolph,Euijung Ryu,José-Alain Sahel,Debra A. Schaumberg,Hendrik P. N. Scholl,Hendrik P. N. Scholl,Stephen G. Schwartz,William K. Scott,Humma Shahid,Humma Shahid,Haraldur Sigurdsson,Giuliana Silvestri,Theru A. Sivakumaran,R. Theodore Smith,Lucia Sobrin,Eric H Souied,Dwight Stambolian,Hreinn Stefansson,Gwen M. Sturgill-Short,Atsushi Takahashi,Nirubol Tosakulwong,Barbara Truitt,Evangelia E. Tsironi,André G. Uitterlinden,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Lingam Vijaya,Johannes R. Vingerling,Eranga N. Vithana,Eranga N. Vithana,Andrew R. Webster,Andrew R. Webster,H.-Erich Wichmann,Thomas W. Winkler,Tien Yin Wong,Tien Yin Wong,Tien Yin Wong,Alan F. Wright,Diana Zelenika,Ming Zhang,Ming Zhang,Ling Zhao,Kang Zhang,Kang Zhang,Michael L. Klein,Gregory S. Hageman,Mark Lathrop,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Rando Allikmets,Paul N. Baird,Michael B. Gorin,Jie Jin Wang,Jie Jin Wang,Caroline C W Klaver,Johanna M. Seddon,Margaret A. Pericak-Vance,Sudha K. Iyengar,John R.W. Yates,John R.W. Yates,John R.W. Yates,Anand Swaroop,Anand Swaroop,Bernhard H. F. Weber,Michiaki Kubo,Margaret M. DeAngelis,Thierry Léveillard,Thierry Léveillard,Thierry Léveillard,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Jonathan L. Haines,Lindsay A. Farrer,Iris M. Heid,Gonçalo R. Abecasis +185 more
TL;DR: A collaborative genome-wide association study, including >17,100 advanced AMD cases and >60,000 controls of European and Asian ancestry, identifies 19 loci associated at P < 5 × 10−8, which show enrichment for genes involved in the regulation of complement activity, lipid metabolism, extracellular matrix remodeling and angiogenesis.
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SLC2A9 is a newly identified urate transporter influencing serum urate concentration, urate excretion and gout
Veronique Vitart,Igor Rudan,Igor Rudan,Caroline Hayward,Nicola K. Gray,Nicola K. Gray,James A B Floyd,Colin N. A. Palmer,Sara Knott,Ivana Kolcic,Ozren Polasek,Ozren Polasek,Juergen Graessler,James F. Wilson,Anthony M. Marinaki,Philip Riches,Xinhua Shu,Branka Janićijević,Nina Smolej-Narančić,Barbara Gorgoni,Barbara Gorgoni,Joanne E. Morgan,Susan Campbell,Zrinka Biloglav,Lovorka Barac-Lauc,Marijana Peričić,Irena Martinović Klarić,Lina Zgaga,Tatjana Škarić-Jurić,Sarah H. Wild,William A. Richardson,Peter Hohenstein,Charley H Kimber,Albert Tenesa,Louise A. Donnelly,Lynette D. Fairbanks,Martin Aringer,Paul M. McKeigue,Stuart H. Ralston,Andrew D. Morris,Pavao Rudan,Nicholas D. Hastie,Harry Campbell,Alan F. Wright +43 more
TL;DR: Genetic variants within a transporter gene, SLC2A9, that explain 1.7–5.3% of the variance in serum uric acid concentrations are identified following a genome-wide association scan in a Croatian population sample and it is shown that it has strong uric Acid transport activity in Xenopus laevis oocytes.