Common SNPs explain a large proportion of the heritability for human height

Nature Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 565-569

  Yang, Jian ^a   Benyamin, Beben ^a   McEvoy, Brian P ^a   Gordon, Scott ^a   Henders, Anjali K ^a   Nyholt, Dale R ^a   Madden, Pamela A ^b   Heath, Andrew C ^b   Martin, Nicholas G ^a   Montgomery, Grant W ^a   Goddard, Michael E ^c   Visscher, Peter M ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; GENE FREQUENCY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; BODY HEIGHT; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954140531     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.608     Document Type: Article

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