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Eleanor Wheeler
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Publications - 52
Citations - 12411
Eleanor Wheeler is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Type 2 diabetes. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 52 publications receiving 11254 citations. Previous affiliations of Eleanor Wheeler include Stanford University & Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute.
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A genome-wide association search for type 2 diabetes genes in African Americans.
Nichole D. Palmer,Caitrin W. McDonough,Pamela J. Hicks,B H Roh,M R Wing,S S An,Jessica M. Hester,Jessica N. Cooke,Meredith A. Bostrom,Megan E. Rudock,Matthew E. Talbert,Joshua P. Lewis,Assiamira Ferrara,Lingyi Lu,Julie T. Ziegler,Michèle M. Sale,Jasmin Divers,Daniel Shriner,Adebowale Adeyemo,Charles N. Rotimi,Ng Mcy.,Carl D. Langefeld,Barry I. Freedman,Donald W. Bowden,Benjamin F. Voight,Laura J. Scott,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Andrew P. Morris,Christian Dina,Ryan P. Welch,Eleftheria Zeggini,Cornelia Huth,Yurii S. Aulchenko,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Laura J. McCulloch,Teresa Ferreira,Harald Grallert,Najaf Amin,Guanming Wu,Cristen J. Willer,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Steven A. McCarroll,Claudia Langenberg,O M Hofmann,Josée Dupuis,Lu Qi,A V Segrè,M. van Hoek,Pau Navarro,Kristin G. Ardlie,Beverley Balkau,Rafn Benediktsson,Amanda J. Bennett,Roza Blagieva,Eric Boerwinkle,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Kristina Bengtsson Boström,Bert Bravenboer,Suzannah Bumpstead,N P Burtt,Guillaume Charpentier,Peter S. Chines,Marilyn C. Cornelis,David Couper,Gabriel Crawford,Doney Asf.,Kathryn Elliott,A L Elliott,Michael R. Erdos,Caroline S. Fox,Christopher S. Franklin,Martha Ganser,Christian Gieger,Niels Grarup,Todd Green,Simon J. Griffin,C J Groves,Candace Guiducci,Samy Hadjadj,N Hassanali,C. Herder,Bo Isomaa,Anne U. Jackson,Johnson Prv.,Torben Jørgensen,Kao Whl.,N Klopp,Augustine Kong,Peter Kraft,Johanna Kuusisto,Torsten Lauritzen,Man Li,Aloysius G Lieverse,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Valeriya Lyssenko,Meghan L. Marré,Thomas Meitinger,Kristian Midthjell,Mario A. Morken,Narisu Narisu,P. M. Nilsson,Katharine R. Owen,Felicity Payne,Perry Jrb.,Petersen A-K.,Carl G. P. Platou,Christine Proença,Inga Prokopenko,Wolfgang Rathmann,N W Rayner,Neil R. Robertson,Ghislain Rocheleau,Michael Roden,Mike Sampson,Richa Saxena,B M Shields,Peter Shrader,Gunnar Sigurdsson,Thomas Sparsø,Klaus Strassburger,Heather M. Stringham,Qi Sun,Amy J. Swift,Barbara Thorand,Jean Tichet,Tiinamaija Tuomi,R. M. van Dam,T.W. van Haeften,T van Herpt,J. V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,G B Walters,Michael N. Weedon,Cisca Wijmenga,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,Richard N. Bergman,Stéphane Cauchi,Francis S. Collins,Anna L. Gloyn,Ulf Gyllensten,Torben Hansen,Winston Hide,Graham A. Hitman,Albert Hofman,David J. Hunter,Kristian Hveem,Markku Laakso,Karen L. Mohlke,Andrew D. Morris,Palmer Cna.,Peter P. Pramstaller,Igor Rudan,Eric J.G. Sijbrands,Lincoln D. Stein,Jaakko Tuomilehto,A.G. Uitterlinden,M Walker,Nicholas J. Wareham,Richard M. Watanabe,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Bernhard O. Boehm,Harry Campbell,Mark J. Daly,Andrew T. Hattersley,Frank B. Hu,James B. Meigs,James S. Pankow,Oluf Pedersen,Wichmann H-E.,Inês Barroso,Jose C. Florez,Timothy M. Frayling,Leif Groop,R Sladek,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,James F. Wilson,Thomas Illig,Philippe Froguel,C M van Duijn,Kari Stefansson,David Altshuler,Michael Boehnke,Mark I. McCarthy,Nicole Soranzo,Eleanor Wheeler,Nicole L. Glazer,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Reedik Mägi,Joshua C. Randall,Toby Johnson,Paul Elliott,Denis Rybin,Peter Henneman,Abbas Dehghan,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Kijoung Song,Anuj Goel,Josephine M. Egan,Taina K. Lajunen,Alex S. F. Doney,Stavroula Kanoni,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Meena Kumari,Nicholas J. Timpson,Carina Zabena,Erik Ingelsson,Ping An,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Jian'an Luan,Amanda F. Elliott,Rosa Maria Roccasecca,François Pattou,Praveen Sethupathy,Yavuz Ariyurek,Philip J. Barter,John Beilby,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Sven Bergmann,Murielle Bochud,Amélie Bonnefond,Knut Borch-Johnsen,Yvonne Böttcher,Eric J. Brunner,Suzannah Bumpstead,Chen Y-Di.,Peter S. Chines,Robert Clarke,Coin Ljm.,Mark E. Cooper,Laura Crisponi,Day Inm.,de Geus Ejc.,Jérôme Delplanque,A C Fedson,Antje Fischer-Rosinsky,Nita G. Forouhi,R.R. Frants,MariaGrazia Franzosi,Pilar Galan,Mark O. Goodarzi,J. Graessler,Scott M. Grundy,R. Gwilliam,Göran Hallmans,Naomi Hammond,Xijing Han,Hartikainen A-L.,Caroline Hayward,Simon C. Heath,Serge Hercberg,Andrew A. Hicks,David R. Hillman,Aroon D. Hingorani,Jennie Hui,Joseph Hung,A. Jula,Marika Kaakinen,Jaakko Kaprio,Y A Kesaniemi,Mika Kivimäki,Beatrice Knight,Sini Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Kirsten Ohm Kyvik,G M Lathrop,Debbie A Lawlor,O Le Bacquer,Cécile Lecoeur,Yun Li,Robert W. Mahley,Massimo Mangino,Alisa K. Manning,María Teresa Martínez-Larrad,Jarred B. McAteer,Ruth McPherson,Christine Meisinger,David Melzer,David Meyre,B. D. Mitchell,Sutapa Mukherjee,Silvia Naitza,Matt J. Neville,B.A. Oostra,Marco Orrù,Ruth E. Pakyz,Giuseppe Paolisso,C. Pattaro,D. Pearson,John F. Peden,Nancy L. Pedersen,M. Perola,Pfeiffer Afh.,Irene Pichler,Ozren Polašek,Danielle Posthuma,Simon C. Potter,Anneli Pouta,M. A. Province,Bruce M. Psaty,Kenneth Rice,Samuli Ripatti,F. Rivadeneira,Olov Rolandsson,A. Sandbaek,M. S. Sandhu,Serena Sanna,Avan Aihie Sayer,Paul Scheet,Udo Seedorf,Stephen J. Sharp,Beverley M. Shields,Sijbrands Ejg.,Angela Silveira,Laila Simpson,Andrew B. Singleton,Nicholas L. Smith,Ulla Sovio,A J Swift,H E Syddall,Syvänen A-C.,Toshiko Tanaka,Anke Tönjes,Andre G. Uitterlinden,K W van Dijk,Dhiraj Varma,Sophie Visvikis-Siest,Veronique Vitart,Nicole Vogelzangs,Gerard Waeber,P J Wagner,Andrew Walley,Kim L. Ward,Hugh Watkins,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Witteman Jcm.,Yarnell Jwg.,Diana Zelenika,Björn Zethelius,Guangju Zhai,Jing Hua Zhao,M. C. Zillikens,Ingrid B. Borecki,Loos Rjf.,Pierre Meneton,Magnusson Pke.,David M. Nathan,Gordon H. Williams,Kaisa Silander,Veikko Salomaa,George Davey Smith,Stefan R. Bornstein,Peter Schwarz,Jochen Spranger,F Karpe,Alan R. Shuldiner,Cyrus Cooper,George Dedoussis,Manuel Serrano-Ríos,Lars Lind,Lyle J. Palmer,Paul W. Franks,Shah Ebrahim,Michael Marmot,Alan F. Wright,Michael Stumvoll,Anders Hamsten,Thomas A. Buchanan,Timo T. Valle,Jerome I. Rotter,David S. Siscovick,Penninx Bwjh.,Dorret I. Boomsma,Panos Deloukas,Tim D. Spector,Luigi Ferrucci,Anyuan Cao,Angelo Scuteri,David Schlessinger,Manuela Uda,Aimo Ruokonen,Jarvelin M-R.,Dawn M. Waterworth,Peter Vollenweider,Leena Peltonen,Vincent Mooser +384 more
TL;DR: It is suggested that multiple loci underlie T2DM susceptibility in the African-American population and that these loci are distinct from those identified in other ethnic populations.
Association analyses of 249,796 individuals reveal 18 new loci associated with body mass index
Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Cristen J. Willer,Sonja I. Berndt,Keri L. Monda,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Anne U. Jackson,H Lango Allen,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Jian'an Luan,Reedik Mägi,Joshua C. Randall,Sailaja Vedantam,Thomas W. Winkler,Lu Qi,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Iris M. Heid,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Heather M. Stringham,Michael N. Weedon,Eleanor Wheeler,Andrew R. Wood,Teresa Ferreira,Robert J. Weyant,Ayellet V. Segrè,K. Estrada,Liming Liang,James Nemesh,Ju-Hyun Park,Stefan Gustafsson,Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen,Jian Yang,Nabila Bouatia-Naji,Tõnu Esko,Mary F. Feitosa,Zoltán Kutalik,Massimo Mangino,Soumya Raychaudhuri,André Scherag,Albert V. Smith,Ryan P. Welch,Jing Hua Zhao,Katja K.H. Aben,Devin Absher,Najaf Amin,Anna L. Dixon,Eva Fisher,Nicole L. Glazer,Michael E. Goddard,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Volker Hoesel,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Åsa Johansson,Toby Johnson,Shamika Ketkar,Claudia Lamina,Shengxu Li,MF Moffatt,Richard H. Myers,Narisu Narisu,John R. B. Perry,Maire Peters,Michael Preuss,Samuli Ripatti,Fernando Rivadeneira,Camilla H. Sandholt,Laura J. Scott,Nicholas J. Timpson,Jonathan Tyrer,S. van Wingerden,Richard M. Watanabe,Charles L. White,Fredrik Wiklund,Cristina Barlassina,Daniel I. Chasman,Mark E. Cooper,John-Olov Jansson,Robert W. Lawrence,Niina Pellikka,Inga Prokopenko,Jianxin Shi,Elisabeth Thiering,Helene Alavere,Maria Teresa Sciarrone Alibrandi,Peter Almgren,Andreas Arnold,Thor Aspelund,Larry D. Atwood,Beverley Balkau,Anthony J. Balmforth,Amanda J. Bennett,Yoav Ben-Shlomo,Richard N. Bergman,Sven Bergmann,Heike Biebermann,Alexandra I. F. Blakemore,Tanja Boes,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Stefan R. Bornstein,Michael Brown,Thomas A. Buchanan,Fabio Busonero,Harry Campbell,Francesco P. Cappuccio,Christine Cavalcanti-Proença,Y. D. Chen,C. M. Chen,Peter S. Chines,Robert Clarke,Lachlan J. M. Coin,John M. C. Connell,Ian N.M. Day,M. den Heijer,Jubao Duan,Shah Ebrahim,Paul Elliott,Roberto Elosua,G. Eiriksdottir,Mike Erdos,Johan G. Eriksson,Maurizio Facheris,Stephan B. Felix,Pamela Fischer-Posovszky,Aaron R. Folsom,Nele Friedrich,Nelson B. Freimer,Mao Fu,Stéphane Gaget,Pablo V. Gejman,Eco J. C. de Geus,Christian Gieger,Anette P. Gjesing,Anuj Goel,Philippe Goyette,Harald Grallert,Jürgen Grässler,Danielle M. Greenawalt,C J Groves,Vilmundur Gudnason,Candace Guiducci,A.-L. Hartikainen,N Hassanali,Alistair S. Hall,Aki S. Havulinna,Caroline Hayward,Andrew C. Heath,Christian Hengstenberg,Andrew A. Hicks,Anke Hinney,Albert Hofman,G. Homuth,Jennie Hui,Wilmar Igl,Carlos Iribarren,Bo Isomaa,Kevin B. Jacobs,Ivonne Jarick,Elizabeth S. Jewell,Ulrich John,Torben Jørgensen,P. Jousilahti,A. Jula,Marika Kaakinen,Eero Kajantie,Lee M. Kaplan,Sekar Kathiresan,Johannes Kettunen,Leena Kinnunen,Joshua W. Knowles,Ivana Kolcic,Inke R. König,Seppo Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Johanna Kuusisto,Peter Kraft,Kirsti Kvaløy,Jaana Laitinen,Olivier Lantieri,Chiara Lanzani,Lenore J. Launer,Cécile Lecoeur,Terho Lehtimäki,Guillaume Lettre,Jianjun Liu,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Mattias Lorentzon,Robert Luben,Barbara Ludwig,Paolo Manunta,Diana Marek,Michel Marre,Nicholas G. Martin,Wendy L. McArdle,Alun D. McCarthy,Barbara McKnight,Thomas Meitinger,Olle Melander,David Meyre,Kristian Midthjell,Grant W. Montgomery,M. A. Morken,Andrew P. Morris,Rosanda Mulić,Julius S. Ngwa,Mari Nelis,Matt Neville,Dale R. Nyholt,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Stephen O'Rahilly,Ken K. Ong,Ben A. Oostra,Guillaume Paré,Alex N. Parker,Markus Perola,Irene Pichler,Kirsi H. Pietiläinen,Carl Platou,Ozren Polasek,A Pouta,Suzanne Rafelt,Olli T. Raitakari,Nigel W. Rayner,Martin Ridderstråle,Winfried Rief,Aimo Ruokonen,Neil R. Robertson,Peter Rzehak,Veikko Salomaa,Alan R. Sanders,Manjinder S. Sandhu,Serena Sanna,Jouko Saramies,Markku J. Savolainen,S. Scherag,Sabine Schipf,Stefan Schreiber,Heribert Schunkert,Kaisa Silander,Juha Sinisalo,David S. Siscovick,J.H. Smit,Nicole Soranzo,Ulla Sovio,J. Stephens,Ida Surakka,Amy J. Swift,M. L. Tammesoo,Jean-Claude Tardif,Maris Teder-Laving,Tanya M. Teslovich,John R. Thompson,Brian Thomson,A Tönjes,Tiinamaija Tuomi,J.B. van Meurs,G.J.B. van Ommen,Vincent Vatin,Jorma Viikari,Sophie Visvikis-Siest,Veronique Vitart,Charlotte Vogel,Benjamin F. Voight,Lindsay L. Waite,Henri Wallaschofski,G B Walters,E. Widen,Susanna Wiegand,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Daniel R. Witte,Jacqueline C. M. Witteman,Jianfeng Xu,Qunyuan Zhang,Lina Zgaga,Andreas Ziegler,P. Zitting,John Beilby,I S Farooqi,Johannes Hebebrand,Heikki V. Huikuri,Alan L. James,Mika Kähönen,Douglas F. Levinson,Fabio Macciardi,Markku S. Nieminen,Claes Ohlsson,Lyle J. Palmer,Paul M. Ridker,Michael Stumvoll,Jacques S. Beckmann,H. Boeing,Eric Boerwinkle,Dorret I. Boomsma,Mark J. Caulfield,Stephen J. Chanock,Francis S. Collins,L. A. Cupples,George Davey Smith,Jeanette Erdmann,Philippe Froguel,Henrik Grönberg,Ulf Gyllensten,Per Hall,Torben Hansen,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Richard B. Hayes,Joachim Heinrich,Frank B. Hu,Kristian Hveem,Thomas Illig,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Jaakko Kaprio,Fredrik Karpe,Kay-Tee Khaw,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Heiko Krude,Markku Laakso,Debbie A Lawlor,Andres Metspalu,Patricia B. Munroe,Willem H. Ouwehand,Oluf Pedersen,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Annette Peters,Peter P. Pramstaller,Thomas Quertermous,Thomas Reinehr,A. Rissanen,Igor Rudan,Nilesh J. Samani,Peter Schwarz,Alan R. Shuldiner,Tim D. Spector,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Manuela Uda,André G. Uitterlinden,Valle Tt,Martin Wabitsch,G. Waeber,Nicholas J. Wareham,Hugh Watkins,James F. Wilson,Alan F. Wright,M. C. Zillikens,Nilanjan Chatterjee,Steven A. McCarroll,Shaun Purcell,Eric E. Schadt,Peter M. Visscher,Themistocles L. Assimes,Ingrid B. Borecki,Panos Deloukas,Caroline S. Fox,Leif Groop,Talin Haritunians,David J. Hunter,Robert C. Kaplan,Karen L. Mohlke,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,Leena Peltonen,David Schlessinger,David P. Strachan,C M van Duijn,H. E. Wichmann,Timothy M. Frayling,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Inês Barroso,Michael Boehnke,Kari Stefansson,Kari E. North,Mark I. McCarthy,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Erik Ingelsson,Ruth J. F. Loos +374 more
TL;DR: 18 new loci associated with body mass index are identified, one of which includes a copy number variant near GPRC5B, and genes in other newly associated loci may provide new insights into human body weight regulation.
Journal Article
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
Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height
Hana Lango Allen,Karol Estrada,Guillaume Lettre,Sonja I. Berndt,Michael N. Weedon,Fernando Rivadeneira,Cristen J. Willer,Anne U. Jackson,Sailaja Vedantam,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Teresa Ferreira,Andrew R. Wood,Robert J. Weyant,Ayellet V. Segrè,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Eleanor Wheeler,Nicole Soranzo,Ju-Hyun Park,Jian Yang,Daniel F. Gudbjartsson,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Joshua C. Randall,Lu Qi,Albert V. Smith,Reedik Maegi,Tomi Pastinen,Liming Liang,Iris M. Heid,Jian'an Luan,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Thomas W. Winkler,Michael E. Goddard,Ken Sin Lo,Cameron D. Palmer,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Yurii S. Aulchenko,Åsa Johansson,M. Carola Zillikens,Mary F. Feitosa,Tõnu Esko,Toby Johnson,Shamika Ketkar,Peter Kraft,Massimo Mangino,Inga Prokopenko,Devin Absher,Eva Albrecht,Florian Ernst,Nicole L. Glazer,Caroline Hayward,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Kevin B. Jacobs,Joshua W. Knowles,Zoltán Kutalik,Keri L. Monda,Ozren Polasek,Michael Preuss,Nigel W. Rayner,Neil R. Robertson,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Jonathan Tyrer,Benjamin F. Voight,Fredrik Wiklund,Jianfeng Xu,Jing Hua Zhao,Dale R. Nyholt,Niina Pellikka,Markus Perola,John R. B. Perry,Ida Surakka,Mari-Liis Tammesoo,Elizabeth L. Altmaier,Najaf Amin,Thor Aspelund,Tushar Bhangale,Gabrielle Boucher,Daniel I. Chasman,Constance Chen,Lachlan J. M. Coin,Mark E. Cooper,Anna L. Dixon,Quince Gibson,Elin Grundberg,Ke Hao,M. Juhani Junttila,Lee M. Kaplan,Johannes Kettunen,Inke R. Koenig,Tony Kwan,Robert Lawrence,Douglas F. Levinson,Mattias Lorentzon,Barbara McKnight,Andrew P. Morris,Martina Mueller,Julius S. Ngwa,Shaun Purcell,Suzanne Rafelt,Rany M. Salem,Erika Salvi,Serena Sanna,Jianxin Shi,Ulla Sovio,John R. Thompson,Michael C. Turchin,Liesbeth Vandenput,Dominique J. Verlaan,Veronique Vitart,Charles C. White,Andreas Ziegler,Peter Almgren,Anthony J. Balmforth,Harry Campbell,Lorena Citterio,Alessandro De Grandi,Anna F. Dominiczak,Jubao Duan,Paul Elliott,Roberto Elosua,Johan G. Eriksson,Nelson B. Freimer,Eco J. C. de Geus,Nicola Glorioso,Shen Haiqing,Anna-Liisa Hartikainen,Aki S. Havulinna,Andrew A. Hicks,Jennie Hui,Wilmar Igl,Thomas Illig,Antti Jula,Eero Kajantie,Tuomas O. Kilpelaeinen,Markku Koiranen,Ivana Kolcic,Seppo Koskinen,Peter Kovacs,Jaana Laitinen,Jianjun Liu,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Ana Marušić,Andrea Maschio,Thomas Meitinger,Antonella Mulas,Guillaume Paré,Alex N. Parker,John F. Peden,Astrid Petersmann,Irene Pichler,Kirsi H. Pietiläinen,Anneli Pouta,Martin Riddertrale,Jerome I. Rotter,Jennifer G. Sambrook,Alan R. Sanders,Carsten Oliver Schmidt,Juha Sinisalo,Jan Smit,Heather M. Stringham,G. Bragi Walters,Elisabeth Widen,Sarah H. Wild,Gonneke Willemsen,Laura Zagato,Lina Zgaga,Paavo Zitting,Helene Alavere,Martin Farrall,Wendy L. McArdle,Mari Nelis,Marjolein Peters,Samuli Ripatti,Joyce B. J. vVan Meurs,Katja K.H. Aben,Kristin G. Ardlie,Jacques S. Beckmann,John Beilby,Richard N. Bergman,Sven Bergmann,Francis S. Collins,Daniele Cusi,Martin den Heijer,Gudny Eiriksdottir,Pablo V. Gejman,Alistair S. Hall,Anders Hamsten,Heikki V. Huikuri,Carlos Iribarren,Mika Kähönen,Jaakko Kaprio,Sekar Kathiresan,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Thomas D. Kocher,Lenore J. Launer,Terho Lehtimäki,Olle Melander,Thomas H. Mosley,Arthur W. Musk,Markku S. Nieminen,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Claes Ohlsson,Ben A. Oostra,Lyle J. Palmer,Olli T. Raitakari,Paul M. Ridker,John D. Rioux,Aila Rissanen,Carlo Rivolta,Heribert Schunkert,Alan R. Shuldiner,David S. Siscovick,Michael Stumvoll,Anke Toenjes,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Gert-Jan B. van Ommen,Jorma Viikari,Andrew C. Heath,Nicholas G. Martin,Grant W. Montgomery,Michael A. Province,Manfred Kayser,Alice M. Arnold,Larry D. Atwood,Eric Boerwinkle,Stephen J. Chanock,Panos Deloukas,Christian Gieger,Henrik Grönberg,Per Hall,Andrew T. Hattersley,Christian Hengstenberg,Wolfgang Hoffman,G. Mark Lathrop,Veikko Salomaa,Stefan Schreiber,Manuela Uda,Dawn M. Waterworth,Alan F. Wright,Themistocles L. Assimes,Inês Barroso,Albert Hofman,Karen L. Mohlke,Dorret I. Boomsma,Mark J. Caulfield,L. Adrienne Cupples,Jeanette Erdmann,Caroline S. Fox,Vilmundur Gudnason,Ulf Gyllensten,Tamara B. Harris,Richard B. Hayes,Marjo-Ritta Jarvelin,Vincent Mooser,Patricia B. Munroe,Willem H. Ouwehand,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Peter P. Pramstaller,Thomas Quertermous,Igor Rudan,Nilesh J. Samani,Tim D. Spector,Henry Voelzke,Hugh Watkins,James F. Wilson,Leif Groop,Talin Haritunians,Frank B. Hu,Robert C. Kaplan,Andres Metspalu,Kari E. North,David Schlessinger,Nicholas J. Wareham,David J. Hunter,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,David P. Strachan,H. Erich Schadt,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Leena Peltonen,André G. Uitterlinden,Peter M. Visscher,Nilanjan Chatterjee,Ruth J. F. Loos,Michael Boehnke,Mark I. McCarthy,Erik Ingelsson,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Kari Stefansson,Timothy M. Frayling,Joel N. Hirschhorn +289 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that hundreds of genetic variants, in at least 180 loci, influence adult height, a highly heritable and classic polygenic trait, revealing patterns with important implications for genetic studies of common human diseases and traits.
The UK10K project identifies rare variants in health and disease
Klaudia Walter,Josine L. Min,Jie Huang,Lucy Crooks,Yasin Memari,Shane A. McCarthy,John R. B. Perry,ChangJiang Xu,Marta Futema,Daniel Lawson,Valentina Iotchkova,Stephan Schiffels,Audrey E. Hendricks,Petr Danecek,Rui Li,James A B Floyd,Louise V. Wain,Inês Barroso,Steve E. Humphries,Matthew E. Hurles,Eleftheria Zeggini,Jeffrey C. Barrett,Vincent Plagnol,J. Brent Richards,Celia M. T. Greenwood,Nicholas J. Timpson,Richard Durbin,Nicole Soranzo,Senduran Bala,Peter Clapham,Guy Coates,Tony Cox,Allan Daly,Yuanping Du,Sarah Edkins,Peter R. Ellis,Paul Flicek,Xiaosen Guo,Xueqin Guo,Liren Huang,David K. Jackson,Christopher J. Joyce,Thomas Keane,Anja Kolb-Kokocinski,Cordelia Langford,Yingrui Li,Jieqin Liang,Hong Lin,Ryan Liu,John Maslen,Dawn Muddyman,Michael A. Quail,Jim Stalker,Jianping Sun,Jing Tian,Guangbiao Wang,Jun Wang,Yu Wang,Kim Wong,Pingbo Zhang,Ewan Birney,Chris Boustred,Lu Chen,Gail Clement,Massimiliano Cocca,George Davey Smith,Ian N.M. Day,Aaron G. Day-Williams,Thomas A. Down,Ian Dunham,David M. Evans,Tom R. Gaunt,Matthias Geihs,Deborah J. Hart,Bryan Howie,Tim Hubbard,Pirro G. Hysi,Yalda Jamshidi,Konrad J. Karczewski,John P. Kemp,Genevieve Lachance,Monkol Lek,Margarida C. Lopes,Daniel G. MacArthur,Jonathan Marchini,Massimo Mangino,Iain Mathieson,Sarah Metrustry,Alireza Moayyeri,Kate Northstone,Kalliope Panoutsopoulou,Lavinia Paternoster,Lydia Quaye,Susan M. Ring,Graham R. S. Ritchie,Hashem A. Shihab,So-Youn Shin,Kerrin S. Small,María Soler Artigas,Lorraine Southam,Tim D. Spector,Beate St Pourcain,Gabriela L. Surdulescu,Ioanna Tachmazidou,Martin D. Tobin,Ana M. Valdes,Peter M. Visscher,Kirsten J. Ward,Scott Wilson,Jian Yang,Feng Zhang,Hou-Feng Zheng,Richard Anney,Muhammad Ayub,Douglas Blackwood,Patrick Bolton,Gerome Breen,David A. Collier,Nicholas John Craddock,Sarah Curran,David Curtis,Louise Gallagher,Daniel H. Geschwind,Hugh Gurling,Peter Holmans,Irene Lee,Jouko Lönnqvist,Peter McGuffin,Andrew M. McIntosh,Andrew McKechanie,Andrew McQuillin,James Morris,Michael Conlon O'Donovan,Michael John Owen,Aarno Palotie,Jeremy R. Parr,Tiina Paunio,Olli Pietiläinen,Karola Rehnström,Sally I. Sharp,David Skuse,David St Clair,Jaana Suvisaari,James T.R. Walters,Hywel Williams,Elena G. Bochukova,Rebecca Bounds,Anna F. Dominiczak,I. Sadaf Farooqi,Julia M. Keogh,Gaëlle Marenne,Andrew D. Morris,Stephen O'Rahilly,David J. Porteous,Blair H. Smith,Eleanor Wheeler,Saeed Al Turki,Carl A. Anderson,Dinu Antony,PL Beales,Jamie Bentham,Shoumo Bhattacharya,Mattia Calissano,Keren J. Carss,Krishna Chatterjee,Sebahattin Cirak,Catherine Cosgrove,David R. FitzPatrick,A. Reghan Foley,Christopher S. Franklin,Detelina Grozeva,Hannah M. Mitchison,Francesco Muntoni,Alexandros Onoufriadis,Victoria E. R. Parker,Felicity Payne,F. Lucy Raymond,Nicola D. Roberts,David B. Savage,Peter J. Scambler,Miriam Schmidts,Nadia Schoenmakers,Robert K. Semple,Eva Goncalves Serra,Olivera Spasic-Boskovic,Elizabeth Stevens,Margriet van Kogelenberg,Parthiban Vijayarangakannan,Kathleen A. Williamson,Crispian Wilson,Tamieka Whyte,Antonio Ciampi,Karim Oualkacha,Martin Bobrow,Heather Griffin,Jane Kaye,Karen Kennedy,Alastair Kent,Carol Smee,R. Charlton,Rosemary Ekong,Farrah Khawaja,Luis R. Lopes,Nicola Migone,Stewart J. Payne,Rebecca C. Pollitt,Sue Povey,Cheryl K. Ridout,Rachel L. Robinson,Richard H Scott,Adam Shaw,Petros Syrris,Rohan Taylor,Anthony M. Vandersteen,Antoinette Amuzu,Juan P. Casas,John C. Chambers,George Dedoussis,Giovanni Gambaro,Paolo Gasparini,Aaron Isaacs,Jon Johnson,Marcus E. Kleber,Jaspal S. Kooner,Claudia Langenberg,Jian'an Luan,Giovanni Malerba,Winfried Maerz,Angela Matchan,Richard W Morris,Børge G. Nordestgaard,Marianne Benn,Robert A. Scott,Daniela Toniolo,Michela Traglia,Anne Tybjærg-Hansen,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Elisabeth M. van Leeuwen,Anette Varbo,Peter H. Whincup,Gianluigi Zaza,Weihua Zhang +241 more
TL;DR: The contribution of rare and low-frequency variants to human traits is largely unexplored as mentioned in this paper, but the contribution of these variants to the human traits has not yet been fully explored.