Genome-wide genetic homogeneity between sexes and populations for human height and body mass index

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 25, 2015, Pages 7445-7449

  Yang, Jian ^a,c   Bakshi, Andrew ^a,c   Zhu, Zhihong ^a,c   Hemani, Gibran ^a,b,c   Vinkhuyzen, Anna A E ^a,c   Nolte, Ilja M ^c,d   van Vliet Ostaptchouk, Jana V ^c,d   Snieder, Harold ^c,d   Esko, Tonu ^c,e,f,g,h   Milani, Lili ^c,e   Mägi, Reedik ^c,e   Metspalu, Andres ^c,e,i   Hamsten, Anders ^c,j   Magnusson, Patrik K E ^c,j   Pedersen, Nancy L ^c,j   Ingelsson, Erik ^c,k,l   Visscher, Peter M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^f BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

^h HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^j KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^k UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^l STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX ALLOCATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WAIST HIP RATIO; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PROCEDURES;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 84959227093     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddv443     Document Type: Article

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