Familial concordance for age at menarche: Analyses from the breakthrough generations study

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 306-311

  Morris, Danielle H ^a   Jones, Michael E ^a   Schoemaker, Minouk J ^a   Ashworth, Alan ^a   Swerdlow, Anthony J ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

heritability; menarche; puberty

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MENARCHE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FAMILY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MENARCHE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TWINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79953815198     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: 13653016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2010.01183.x     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Hsieh CC, Trichopoulos D, Katsouyanni K, Yuasa S,. Age at menarche, age at menopause, height and obesity as risk factors for breast cancer: associations and interactions in an international case-control study. International Journal of Cancer 1990; 46: 796-800.
2. He C, Zhang C, Hunter DJ, Hankinson SE, Buck Louis GM, Hediger ML, et al,. Age at menarche and risk of type 2 diabetes: results from 2 large prospective cohort studies. American Journal of Epidemiology 2010; 171: 334-344.
3. Towne B, Czerwinski SA, Demerath EW, Blangero J, Roche AF, Siervogel RM,. Heritability of age at menarche in girls from the Fels Longitudinal Study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 2005; 128: 210-219. (Pubitemid 41216073)
4. Van den Berg SM, Boomsma DI,. The familial clustering of age at menarche in extended twin families. Behaviour Genetics 2007; 37: 661-667. (Pubitemid 47536214)
5. Anderson CA, Zhu G, Falchi M, Van den Berg SM, Treloar SA, Spector TD, et al,. A genome-wide linkage scan for age at menarche in three populations of European descent. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Metabolism 2008; 93: 3965-3970.
6. Anderson CA, Duffy DL, Martin NG, Visscher PM,. Estimation of variance components for age at menarche in twin families. Behaviour Genetics 2007; 37: 668-677. (Pubitemid 47536216)
7. Kaprio J, Rimpela A, Winter T, Viken RJ, Rimpela M, Rose RJ,. Common genetic influences on BMI and age at menarche. Human Biology 1995; 67: 739-753.
8. Anderson SE, Dallal GE, Must A,. Relative weight and race influence average age at menarche: results from two nationally representative surveys of US girls studied 25 years apart. Pediatrics 2003; 111: 844-850. (Pubitemid 36402912)
9. Baxter-Jones ADG, Helms P, Bainespreece J, Preece M,. Menarche in intensively trained gymnasts, swimmers and tennis players. Annals of Human Biology 1994; 21: 407-415.
10. Windham GC, Bottomley C, Birner C, Fenster L,. Age at menarche in relation to maternal use of tobacco, alcohol, coffee, and tea during pregnancy. American Journal of Epidemiology 2004; 159: 862-871. (Pubitemid 38657488)
11. Parent AS, Teilmann G, Juul A, Skakkebaek NE, Toppari J, Bourguignon JP,. The timing of normal puberty and the age limits of sexual precocity: variations around the world, secular trends, and changes after migration. Endocrine Reviews 2003; 24: 668-693. (Pubitemid 37330586)
12. CACI. ACORN Directory. London: CACI Limited, 2009.
13. SAS Institute. SAS Version 9.1 Copyright © 2002-2003. (9.1). Cary, NC: SAS Institute Inc., 2003.
14. Czene K, Lichtenstein P, Hemminki K,. Environmental and heritable causes of cancer among 9.6 million individuals in the Swedish Family-Cancer Database. International Journal of Cancer 2002; 99: 260-266. (Pubitemid 34309484)
15. Neale MC,. Mx: Statistical Modeling. (1.54a). Richmond, VA: Medical College of Virginia, 2004.
16. Akaike H,. A new look at the statistical model identification. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control 1974; 19: 716-723.
17. Manolio TA, Collins FS, Cox NJ, Goldstein DB, Hindorff LA, Hunter DJ, et al,. Finding the missing heritability of complex diseases. Nature 2009; 461: 747-753.
18. Treloar SA, Martin NG,. Age at menarche as a fitness trait: nonadditive genetic variance detected in a large twin sample. American Journal of Human Genetics 1990; 47: 137-148.
19. He C, Kraft P, Chen C, Buring JE, Pare G, Hankinson SE, et al,. Genome-wide association studies identify loci associated with age at menarche and age at natural menopause. Nature Genetics 2009; 41: 724-728.
20. Liu YZ, Guo YF, Wang L, Tan LJ, Liu XG, Pei YF, et al,. Genome-wide association analyses identify SPOCK as a key novel gene underlying age at menarche. PLoS Genetics 2009; 5: e1000420.
21. Ong K, Emmett P, Northstone K, Golding J, Rogers I, Ness A, et al,. Infancy weight gain predicts childhood body fat and age at menarche in girls. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology Metabolism 2009; 94: 1527-1532.
22. Perry JRB, Stolk L, Franceschini N, Lunetta KL, Zhai G, McArdle PF, et al,. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association data identifies two loci influencing age at menarche. Nature Genetics 2009; 41: 648-650.
23. Sulem P, Gudbjartsson DF, Rafnar T, Holm H, Olafsdottir EJ, Olafsdottir GH, et al,. Genome-wide association study identifies sequence variants on 6q21 associated with age at menarche. Nature Genetics 2009; 41: 734-738.
24. Frisch RE,. Body fat, menarche, fitness and fertility. Human Reproduction 1987; 2: 521-533.
25. Pietilainen KH, Kaprio J, Rasanen M, Rissanen A, Rose RJ,. Genetic and environmental influences on the tracking of body size from birth to early adulthood. Obesity Research 2002; 10: 875-884. (Pubitemid 135688900)
26. Koprowski C, Coates RJ, Bernstein L,. Ability of young women to recall past body size and age at menarche. Obesity 2001; 9: 478-485. (Pubitemid 33600291)
27. Morris DH, Jones ME, Schoemaker MJ, Ashworth A, Swerdlow AJ,. Determinants of age at menarche in the United Kingdom: analyses from the Breakthrough Generation Study. British Journal of Cancer 2010; 103: 1760-1764.
28. The Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Commonly studied single-nucleotide polymorphisms and breast cancer: results from the Breast Cancer Association Consortium. Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2006; 98: 1382-1396.