Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for height and body mass index in ~700 000 individuals of European ancestry

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 20, 2018, Pages 3641-3649

  Yengo, Loic ^a   Sidorenko, Julia ^a,b   Kemper, Kathryn E ^a   Zheng, Zhili ^a   Wood, Andrew R ^c   Weedon, Michael N ^c   Frayling, Timothy M ^c   Hirschhorn, Joel ^d   Yang, Jian ^a   Visscher, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOBANK; BIOLOGY; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPRESSION QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEIGHT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; META ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RETIREMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CAUCASIAN; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 85054297174     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddy271     Document Type: Article

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