Identification of ten loci associated with height highlights new biological pathways in human growth

Nature Genetics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 584-591

  Lettre, Guillaume ^a,b   Jackson, Anne U ^c   Gieger, Christian ^d,e   Schumacher, Fredrick R ^f,g   Berndt, Sonja I ^h   Sanna, Serena ^c,i   Eyheramendy, Susana ^d,e   Voight, Benjamin F ^a,j   Butler, Johannah L ^b   Guiducci, Candace ^a   Illig, Thomas ^d   Hackett, Rachel ^a   Heid, Iris M ^d,e   Jacobs, Kevin B ^k   Lyssenko, Valeriya ^l   Uda, Manuela ⁱ   Boehnke, Michael ^c   Chanock, Stephen J ^h   Groop, Leif C ^l,m   Hu, Frank B ^f,g   Isomaa, Bo ^n,o   Kraft, Peter ^g   Peltonen, Leena ^a,p,q   Salomaa, Veikko ^r   Schlessinger, David ^s   Hunter, David J ^a,f,g   Hayes, Richard B ^h   Abecasis, Gonçalo R ^c   Wichmann, H Erich ^d,e   Mohlke, Karen L ^t   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^a,b,u   more..

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

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ CNR   (Italy)

^j MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^k Bioinformed Consulting Services   (United States)

^l LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^m HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

ⁿ Malmska Municipal Health Care Center and Hospital   (Finland)

^o FOLKHÄLSAN RESEARCH CENTER   (Finland)

^p WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^r NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^s NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^u HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHROMATIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BODY HEIGHT; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

ERINACEIDAE;

EID: 42649092874     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.125     Document Type: Article

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