A novel common variant in DCST2 is associated with length in early life and height in adulthood

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1155-1168

  van der Valk, Ralf J P ^a   Kreiner Møller, Eskil ^b   Kooijman, Marjolein N ^a   Guxens, Moónica ^c,d,e   Stergiakouli, Evangelia ^f   Sääf, Annika ⁱ   Bradfield, Jonathan P ^j   Geller, Frank ^l   Geoffrey Hayes, M ^m,n   Cousminer, Diana L ^o   Körner, Antje ^p   Thiering, Elisabeth ^q,r   Curtin, John A ^u   Myhre, Ronny ^v   Huikari, Ville ^w   Joro, Raimo ^x   Kerkhof, Marjan ^y   Warrington, Nicole M ^aa,ab   Pitkänen, Niina ^ac   Ntalla, Ioanna ^ae,af   Horikoshi, Momoko ^ag,ah   Veijola, Riitta ^ai   Freathy, Rachel M ^ak   Teo, Yik Ying ^al,am   Barton, Sheila J ^an   Evans, David M ^f,ab   Kemp, John P ^f,ab   Pourcain, Beate St ^f,g,h   Ring, Susan M ^f,g   Smith, George Davey ^f   Bergström, Anna ⁱ   Kull, Inger ^ap,aq   Hakonarson, Hakon ^j,k,ar   Mentch, Frank D ^j   Bisgaard, Hans ^b   Chawes, Bo ^b   Stokholm, Jakob ^b   Waage, Johannes ^b   Eriksen, Patrick ^b   Sevelsted, Astrid ^b   Melbye, Mads ^l,as   van Duijn, Cornelia M ^a   Medina Gomez, Carolina ^a   Hofman, Albert ^a   de Jongste, Johan C ^a   Rob Taal, H ^a   Uitterlinden, André G ^a   Armstrong, Loren L ^m,n   Eriksson, Johan ^o   Palotie, Aarno ^o,at,au,av   Bustamante, Mariona ^c,d,e,ax   Estivill, Xavier ^d,e,ax,ay   Gonzalez, Juan R ^c,d,e   Llop, Sabrina ^d,az   Kiess, Wieland ^p   Mahajan, Anubha ^ag   Flexeder, Claudia ^r   Tiesler, Carla M T ^q,r   Murray, Clare S ^u   Simpson, Angela ^u   Magnus, Per ^v   Sengpiel, Verena ^ba   Hartikainen, Anna Liisa ^w   Keinanen Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka ^w   Lewin, Alexandra ^bb   Da Silva Couto Alves, Alexessander ^bb   Blakemore, Alexandra I ^bc   Buxton, Jessica L ^bc   Kaakinen, Marika ^w,bb   Rodriguez, Alina ^bb,bd   Sebert, Sylvain ^w   Vaarasmaki, Marja ^aj   Lakka, Timo ^x,be   Lindi, Virpi ^x   Gehring, Ulrike ^bf   Postma, Dirkje S ^y   Ang, Wei ^aa   Newnham, John P ^aa   Lyytikäinen, Leo Pekka ^bg,bh,bi   Pahkala, Katja ^ab,ac   Raitakari, Olli T ^ac,bj   Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope ^bk   Zeggini, Eleftheria ^bk   Boomsma, Dorret I ^bl,bm,bn   Groen Blokhuis, Maria ^bl,bm,bn   Ilonen, Jorma ^x,ad   Franke, Lude ^y   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^aw,bo,bp   Pers, Tune H ^aw,bo,bq,br   Liang, Liming ^bw   Huang, Jinyan ^bs,bw   Hocher, Berthold ^bt,bu,bv   Knip, Mikael ^o,bw,bx   Saw, Seang Mei ^al,by,bz   Holloway, John W ^ao   Melén, Erik ^i,aq   Grant, Struan F A ^j,k,ar   Feenstra, Bjarke ^l   Lowe, William L ^m,n   Widén, Elisabeth ^o   Sergeyev, Elena ^p   Grallert, Harald ^s,t   Custovic, Adnan ^u   Jacobsson, Bo ^v,ba   Jarvelin, Marjo Riitta ^w,aj,bb,ca   Atalay, Mustafa ^x   Koppelman, Gerard H ^y,z   Pennell, Craig E ^aa   Niinikoski, Harri ^ac,bj   Dedoussis, George V ^af   Mccarthy, Mark I ^ag,ah,cb   Frayling, Timothy M ^ak   Sunyer, Jordi ^c,d,e,ay   Timpson, Nicholas J ^f   Rivadeneira, Fernando ^a   Bønnelykke, Klaus ^b   Jaddoe, Vincent W V ^a   more..

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^d CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^g University of Bristol Canynge Hall   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^j UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^k CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^l STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^m Division of Endocrinology Metabolism and Molecular Medicine   (United States)

ⁿ NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^p UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^q LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^r Institute of Epidemiology   (Germany)

^s Institute of Epidemiology II   (Germany)

^t INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^u UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^v NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^w UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^x UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^y UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^z UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^af HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ai MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OULU   (Finland)

^aj OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^al NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^am UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^an UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^ao UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^ap STOCKHOLM SÖDER HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^aq SACHS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^ar UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^as STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^at Analytical and Translational Genetics Unit   (United States)

^au MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^av Medical and Population Genetics Program   (United States)

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

^ax CENTRE FOR GENOMIC REGULATION CRG   (Spain)

^ay HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^az Foundation for the Promotion of Health and Biomedical Research in the Valencian Region   (Spain)

^ba SAHLGRENSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^bb Imperial College London   (United Kingdom)

^bc IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^bd MID SWEDEN UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^be KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^bf UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^bg FIMLAB LABORATORIES   (Finland)

^bh TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^bi Paavo Nurmi Centre   (Finland)

^bj TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^bk WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^bl VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^bm UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^bn Amsterdam University Medical Center   (Netherlands)

^bo BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^bp HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^bq TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^br HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^bs SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^bt UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^bu THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^bv DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

^bw TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^bx UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI AND HELSINKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^by SINGAPORE EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Singapore)

^bz DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^ca NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^cb CHURCHILL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DC STAMP DOMAIN CONTAINING 2; NUCLEIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DCST2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCING ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE GROWTH; CELL FUSION; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; FOLLOW UP; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OSTEOCLAST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; REPLICATION STUDY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ADULT; AGE; ALLELE; BIOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; REPRODUCIBILITY;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALLELES; BODY HEIGHT; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84985023154     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddu510     Document Type: Article

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