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

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1245-1250

  Weedon, Michael N ^a   Lettre, Guillaume ^b,c   Freathy, Rachel M ^a   Lindgren, Cecilia M ^d,e   Voight, Benjamin F ^b,f   Perry, John R B ^a   Elliott, Katherine S ^d   Hackett, Rachel ^b   Guiducci, Candace ^b   Shields, Beverley ^a   Zeggini, Eleftheria ^d   Lango, Hana ^a   Lyssenko, Valeriya ^g,h   Timpson, Nicholas J ^d,i   Burtt, Noel P ^b   Rayner, Nigel W ^e   Saxena, Richa ^b,f   Ardlie, Kristin ^b   Tobias, Jonathan H ⁱ   Ness, Andrew R ^j   Ring, Susan M ⁱ   Palmer, Colin N A ^k   Morris, Andrew D ^k   Peltonen, Leena ^b,l,m   Salomaa, Veikko ^l   Smith, George Davey ⁱ   Groop, Leif C ^g,h   Hattersley, Andrew T ^a   McCarthy, Mark I ^d,e   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^b,c,n   Frayling, Timothy M ^a   more..

^a PENINSULA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^h HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^l NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^m UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

ⁿ HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A2 PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL TRAIT; BODY HEIGHT; BODY SIZE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT STATURE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TALL STATURE;

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EID: 34748830310     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng2121     Document Type: Article

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