Adult height, coronary heart disease and stroke: A multi-locus Mendelian randomization meta-analysis

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1927-1937

  Nüesch, Eveline ^a,b   Dale, Caroline ^a   Palmer, Tom M ^c,d   White, Jon ^e   Keating, Brendan J ^f,g   van Iperen, Erik P A ^h,l   Goel, Anuj ⁱ   Padmanabhan, Sandosh ^j   Asselbergs, F W ^e,k,l   Verschuren, W M ^m   Wijmenga, C ^m   Van der Schouw, Y T ^m   Onland Moret, N C ^m   Lange, Leslie A ⁿ   Hovingh, G K ^h   Sivapalaratnam, Suthesh ^h   Morris, Richard W ^e   Whincup, Peter H ^o   Wannamethe, Goya S ^e   Gaunt, Tom R ^p   Ebrahim, Shah ^a   Steel, Laura ^f   Nair, Nikhil ^f   Reiner, Alexander P ^q,r   Kooperberg, Charles ^r   Wilson, James F ^s,t   Bolton, Jennifer L ^s   McLachlan, Stela ^s   Price, Jacqueline F ^s   Strachan, Mark W J ^u   Robertson, Christine M ^s   Kleber, Marcus E ^v   Delgado, Graciela ^v   März, Winfried ^v,ad,ae   Melander, Olle ^w   Dominiczak, Anna F ^j   Farrall, Martin ⁱ   Watkins, Hugh ⁱ   Leusink, Maarten ^k,x   Maitland van der Zee, Anke H ^x   de Groot, Mark C H ^k,x   Dudbridge, Frank ^k   Hingorani, Aroon ^y   Ben Shlomo, Yoav ^p   Lawlor, Debbie A ^p   Amuzu, A ^z   Caufield, M ^z   Cavadino, A ^z   Cooper, J ^z   Davies, T L ^z   Day, I N ^z   Drenos, F ^z   Engmann, J ^z   Finan, C ^z   Giambartolomei, C ^z   Hardy, R ^z   Humphries, S E ^z   Hypponen, E ^z   Kivimaki, M ^z   Kuh, D ^z   Kumari, M ^z   Ong, K ^z   Plagnol, V ^z   Power, C ^z   Richards, M ^z   Shah, S ^z   Shah, T ^z   Sofat, R ^z   Talmud, P J ^z   Wareham, N ^z   Warren, H ^z   Whittaker, J C ^z   Wong, A ^z   Zabaneh, D ^z   Smith, George Davey ^p   Wells, Jonathan C ^aa   Leon, David A ^a,ab   Holmes, Michael V ^e,f,ac   Casas, Juan P ^a,e   more..

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^h ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^k UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^l INTERUNIVERSITY CARDIOLOGY INSTITUTE OF THE NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^m EPIC NL   (Netherlands)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^o ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^q UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^r Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^t UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^u WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^v UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^w LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^x UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^y ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^z UCLEB   (United Kingdom)

^aa UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^ad SYNLAB ACADEMY   (Germany)

^ae MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; CHOLESTEROL;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH RISK; HEIGHT; META-ANALYSIS; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; POLYMORPHISM; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUSALITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; META ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHOLESTEROL; CORONARY DISEASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDIES AS TOPIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 85017145944     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyv074     Document Type: Article

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