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Gudmar Thorleifsson
Researcher at deCODE genetics
Publications - 250
Citations - 53089
Gudmar Thorleifsson is an academic researcher from deCODE genetics. The author has contributed to research in topics: Genome-wide association study & Population. The author has an hindex of 102, co-authored 250 publications receiving 46523 citations. Previous affiliations of Gudmar Thorleifsson include Amgen & University of Iceland.
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Plasma HDL cholesterol and risk of myocardial infarction: A mendelian randomisation study
Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Gina M. Peloso,Gina M. Peloso,Marju Orho-Melander,Ruth Frikke-Schmidt,Maja Barbalić,Majken K. Jensen,George Hindy,Hilma Holm,Eric L. Ding,Toby Johnson,Heribert Schunkert,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Robert Clarke,Jemma C. Hopewell,John F. Thompson,Mingyao Li,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Kiran Musunuru,Kiran Musunuru,James P. Pirruccello,James P. Pirruccello,Danish Saleheen,Li Chen,Alexandre F.R. Stewart,Arne Schillert,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Gudmundur Thorgeirsson,Sonia S. Anand,James C. Engert,Thomas M. Morgan,John A. Spertus,Monika Stoll,Klaus Berger,Nicola Martinelli,Domenico Girelli,Pascal P. McKeown,Christopher Patterson,Stephen E. Epstein,Joseph M. Devaney,Mary Susan Burnett,Vincent Mooser,Samuli Ripatti,Ida Surakka,Markku S. Nieminen,Juha Sinisalo,Marja-Liisa Lokki,Markus Perola,Aki S. Havulinna,Ulf de Faire,Bruna Gigante,Erik Ingelsson,Tanja Zeller,Philipp S. Wild,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Olaf H. Klungel,Anke-Hilse Maitland-van der Zee,Bas J M Peters,Anthonius de Boer,Diederick E. Grobbee,Pieter Willem Kamphuisen,Vera H.M. Deneer,Clara C. Elbers,N. Charlotte Onland-Moret,Marten H. Hofker,Cisca Wijmenga,W. M. Monique Verschuren,Jolanda M. A. Boer,Yvonne T. van der Schouw,Asif Rasheed,Philippe M. Frossard,Serkalem Demissie,Serkalem Demissie,Cristen J. Willer,Ron Do,Jose M. Ordovas,Jose M. Ordovas,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Michael Boehnke,Karen L. Mohlke,Mark J. Daly,Mark J. Daly,Candace Guiducci,Noël P. Burtt,Aarti Surti,Elena Gonzalez,Shaun Purcell,Shaun Purcell,Stacey Gabriel,Jaume Marrugat,John F. Peden,Jeanette Erdmann,Patrick Diemert,Christina Willenborg,Inke R. König,Marcus Fischer,Christian Hengstenberg,Andreas Ziegler,Ian Buysschaert,Diether Lambrechts,Frans Van de Werf,Keith A.A. Fox,Nour Eddine El Mokhtari,Diana Rubin,Jürgen Schrezenmeir,Stefan Schreiber,Arne Schäfer,John Danesh,Stefan Blankenberg,Robert Roberts,Ruth McPherson,Hugh Watkins,Alistair S. Hall,Kim Overvad,Eric B. Rimm,Eric Boerwinkle,Anne Tybjærg-Hansen,L. Adrienne Cupples,L. Adrienne Cupples,Muredach P. Reilly,Olle Melander,Pier Mannuccio Mannucci,Diego Ardissino,David S. Siscovick,Roberto Elosua,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Veikko Salomaa,Daniel J. Rader,Leena Peltonen,Leena Peltonen,Stephen M. Schwartz,David Altshuler,Sekar Kathiresan +140 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a Mendelian randomisation analysis was performed to compare the effect of HDL cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, and genetic score on risk of myocardial infarction.
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Twelve type 2 diabetes susceptibility loci identified through large-scale association analysis
Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Laura J. Scott,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Andrew P. Morris,Christian Dina,Christian Dina,Ryan P. Welch,Eleftheria Zeggini,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,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Steve McCarroll,Steve McCarroll,Claudia Langenberg,Oliver Hofmann,Josée Dupuis,Lu Qi,Lu Qi,Ayellet V. Segrè,Ayellet V. Segrè,Mandy van Hoek,Pau Navarro,Kristin 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,Gabe Crawford,Alex S. F. Doney,Katherine S. Elliott,Amanda F. Elliott,Amanda F. Elliott,Michael R. Erdos,Caroline S. Fox,Christopher S. Franklin,Martha Ganser,Christian Gieger,Niels Grarup,Todd Green,Todd Green,Simon J. Griffin,Christopher J. Groves,Candace Guiducci,Samy Hadjadj,Neelam Hassanali,Christian Herder,Bo Isomaa,Anne U. Jackson,Paul Johnson,Torben Jørgensen,Torben Jørgensen,Wen H. L. Kao,Norman Klopp,Augustine Kong,Peter Kraft,Johanna Kuusisto,Torsten Lauritzen,Man Li,Aloysius G Lieverse,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Valeriya Lyssenko,Michel Marre,Michel Marre,Thomas Meitinger,Kristian Midthjell,Mario A. Morken,Narisu Narisu,Peter M. Nilsson,Katharine R. Owen,Felicity Payne,John R. B. Perry,Ann-Kristin Petersen,Carl G. P. Platou,Christine Proença,Inga Prokopenko,Inga Prokopenko,Wolfgang Rathmann,N. William Rayner,N. William Rayner,Neil R. Robertson,Neil R. Robertson,Ghislain Rocheleau,Michael Roden,Mike Sampson,Richa Saxena,Richa Saxena,Beverley M. Shields,Peter Shrader,Gunnar Sigurdsson,Thomas Sparsø,Klaus Strassburger,Heather M. Stringham,Qi Sun,Amy J. Swift,Barbara Thorand,Jean Tichet,Tiinamaija Tuomi,Rob M. van Dam,Timon W. van Haeften,Thijs T. W. van Herpt,Jana V. van Vliet-Ostaptchouk,G. Bragi 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,Colin N. A. Palmer,Peter P. Pramstaller,Igor Rudan,Igor Rudan,Eric J.G. Sijbrands,Lincoln Stein,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Jaakko Tuomilehto,André G. Uitterlinden,Mark Walker,Nicholas J. Wareham,Richard M. Watanabe,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Bernhard O. Boehm,Harry Campbell,Mark J. Daly,Mark J. Daly,Andrew T. Hattersley,Frank B. Hu,Frank B. Hu,James B. Meigs,James S. Pankow,Oluf Pedersen,H-Erich Wichmann,Inês Barroso,Jose C. Florez,Timothy M. Frayling,Leif Groop,Leif Groop,Robert Sladek,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,James F. Wilson,Thomas Illig,Philippe Froguel,Philippe Froguel,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Kari Stefansson,Kari Stefansson,David Altshuler,Michael Boehnke,Mark I. McCarthy,Mark I. McCarthy,Mark I. McCarthy +183 more
TL;DR: By combining genome-wide association data from 8,130 individuals with type 2 diabetes and 38,987 controls of European descent and following up previously unidentified meta-analysis signals, 12 new T2D association signals are identified with combined P < 5 × 10−8.
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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,Sailaja Vedantam,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Soumya Raychaudhuri,Teresa Ferreira,Andrew R. Wood,Robert J. Weyant,Ayellet V. Segrè,Ayellet V. Segrè,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,Eleanor Wheeler,Nicole Soranzo,Nicole Soranzo,Ju-Hyun Park,Jian Yang,Daniel F. Gudbjartsson,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Joshua C. Randall,Lu Qi,Albert V. Smith,Reedik Mägi,Tomi Pastinen,Liming Liang,Iris M. Heid,Jian'an Luan,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Thomas W. Winkler,Michael E. Goddard,Michael E. Goddard,Ken Sin Lo,Cameron D. Palmer,Cameron D. Palmer,Tsegaselassie Workalemahu,Yurii S. Aulchenko,Åsa Johansson,Åsa Johansson,M. Carola Zillikens,Mary F. Feitosa,Tõnu Esko,Tõnu Esko,Toby Johnson,Toby Johnson,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,Zoltán Kutalik,Keri L. Monda,Ozren Polasek,Michael Preuss,Nigel W. Rayner,Neil R. Robertson,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Jonathan Tyrer,Benjamin F. Voight,Benjamin F. Voight,Fredrik Wiklund,Jianfeng Xu,Jing Hua Zhao,Dale R. Nyholt,Niina Pellikka,Niina Pellikka,Markus Perola,Markus Perola,John Perry,Ida Surakka,Ida Surakka,Mari Liis Tammesoo,Elizabeth L. Altmaier,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,Elin Grundberg,Ke Hao,M. Juhani Junttila,Lee M. Kaplan,Johannes Kettunen,Johannes Kettunen,Inke R. König,Tony Kwan,Robert W. Lawrence,Douglas F. Levinson,Mattias Lorentzon,Barbara McKnight,Andrew P. Morris,Martina Müller,Julius S. Ngwa,Shaun Purcell,Shaun Purcell,Suzanne Rafelt,Rany M. Salem,Rany M. Salem,Erika Salvi,Serena Sanna,Jianxin Shi,Ulla Sovio,John R. Thompson,John R. Thompson,Michael C. Turchin,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,Jennie Hui,Wilmar Igl,Thomas Illig,Antti Jula,Eero Kajantie,Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen,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,Anneli Pouta,Martin Ridderstråle,Jerome I. Rotter,Jennifer G. Sambrook,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,Mari Nelis,Marjolein J. Peters,Samuli Ripatti,Samuli Ripatti,Joyce B. J. van Meurs,Katja K.H. Aben,Kristin G. Ardlie,Jacques S. Beckmann,John Beilby,John Beilby,Richard N. Bergman,Sven Bergmann,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,Carlos Iribarren,Mika Kähönen,Jaakko Kaprio,Jaakko Kaprio,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Sekar Kathiresan,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Thomas D. Kocher,Lenore J. Launer,Terho Lehtimäki,Olle Melander,Thomas H. Mosley,Arthur W. Musk,Arthur W. Musk,Markku S. Nieminen,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Claes Ohlsson,Ben A. Oostra,Lyle J. Palmer,Lyle J. Palmer,Olli T. Raitakari,Paul M. Ridker,John D. Rioux,Aila Rissanen,Carlo Rivolta,Heribert Schunkert,Alan R. Shuldiner,Alan R. Shuldiner,David S. Siscovick,Michael Stumvoll,Anke Tönjes,Jaakko Tuomilehto,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,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-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Marjo-Riitta Järvelin,Vincent Mooser,Patricia B. Munroe,Willem H. Ouwehand,Willem H. Ouwehand,Willem H. Ouwehand,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Peter P. Pramstaller,Thomas Quertermous,Igor Rudan,Igor Rudan,Nilesh J. Samani,Nilesh J. Samani,Tim D. Spector,Henry Völzke,Hugh Watkins,James F. Wilson,Leif Groop,Talin Haritunians,Frank B. Hu,Robert C. Kaplan,Andres Metspalu,Andres Metspalu,Kari E. North,David Schlessinger,Nicholas J. Wareham,David J. Hunter,Jeffrey R. O'Connell,David P. Strachan,H.-Erich Wichmann,Ingrid B. Borecki,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Eric E. Schadt,Eric E. Schadt,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,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,Kari Stefansson,Timothy M. Frayling,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Joel N. Hirschhorn +344 more
TL;DR: It is shown that hundreds of genetic variants, in at least 180 loci, influence adult height, a highly heritable and classic polygenic trait, and indicates that GWA studies can identify large numbers of loci that implicate biologically relevant genes and pathways.
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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
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.