Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of adult height in East Asians identifies 17 novel loci.

Hum. Mol. Genet.     Meian He , Min Xu , Ben Zhang , Jun Liang , Peng Chen , Jong-Young Lee , Todd A Johnson , Huaixing Li , Xiaobo Yang , Juncheng Dai , Liming Liang , Lixuan Gui , Qibin Qi , Jinyan Huang , Yanping Li , Linda S Adair , Tin Aung , Qiuyin Cai , Ching-Yu Cheng , Myeong-Chan Cho , Yoon Shin Cho , Minjie Chu , Bin Cui , Yu-Tang Gao , Min Jin Go , Dongfeng Gu , Weiqiong Gu , Huan Guo , Yongchen Hao , Jie Hong , Zhibin Hu , Yanling Hu , Jianfeng Huang , Joo-Yeon Hwang , Mohammad Kamran Ikram , Guangfu Jin , Dae-Hee Kang , Chiea Chuen Khor , Bong-Jo Kim , Hung Tae Kim , Michiaki Kubo , Jeannette Lee , Juyoung Lee , Nanette R Lee , Ruoying Li , Jun Li , JianJun Liu , Jirong Longe , Wei Lu , Xiangfeng Lu , Xiaoping Miao , Yukinori Okada , Rick Twee-Hee Ong , Gaokun Qiu , Mark Seielstad , Xueling Sim , Huaidong Song , Fumihiko Takeuchi , Toshihiro Tanaka , Phil R Taylor , Laiyuan Wang , Weiqing Wang , Yiqin Wang , Chen Wu , Ying Wu , Yong-Bing Xiang , Ken Yamamoto , Handong Yang , Ming Liao , Mitsuhiro Yokota , Terri Young , Xiaomin Zhang , Norihiro Kato , Qing K Wang , Wei Zheng , Frank B Hu , Dongxin Lin , Hongbing Shen , Yik Ying Teo , Zengnan Mo , Tien Yin Wong , Xu Lin , Karen L Mohlke , Guang Ning , Tatsuhiko Tsunoda , Bok-Ghee Han , Xiao-Ou Shu , E Shyong Tai , Tangchun Wu , Lu Qi

Genome-wide association study of primary tooth eruption identifies pleiotropic loci associated with height and craniofacial distances.

Hum. Mol. Genet.     Ghazaleh Fatemifar , Clive J Hoggart , Lavinia Paternoster , John P Kemp , Inga Prokopenko , Momoko Horikoshi , Victoria J Wright , Jon H Tobias , Stephen Richmond , Alexei I Zhurov , Arshed M Toma , Anneli Pouta , Anja Taanila , Kirsi Sipila , Raija Lähdesmäki , Demetris Pillas , Frank Geller , Bjarke Feenstra , Mads Melbye , Ellen A Nohr , Susan M Ring , Beate St Pourcain , Nicholas J Timpson , George Davey Smith , Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin , David M Evans

Genome-wide association and longitudinal analyses reveal genetic loci linking pubertal height growth, pubertal timing and childhood adiposity.

Hum. Mol. Genet.     Diana L Cousminer , Diane J Berry , Nicholas J Timpson , Wei Ang , Elisabeth Thiering , Enda M Byrne , H Rob Taal , Ville Huikari , Jonathan P Bradfield , Marjan Kerkhof , Maria M Groen-Blokhuis , Eskil Kreiner-Møller , Marcella Marinelli , Claus Holst , Jaakko T Leinonen , John R B Perry , Ida Surakka , Olli Pietiläinen , Johannes Kettunen , Verneri Anttila , Marika Kaakinen , Ulla Sovio , Anneli Pouta , Shikta Das , Vasiliki Lagou , Chris Power , Inga Prokopenko , David M Evans , John P Kemp , Beate St Pourcain , Susan Ring , Aarno Palotie , Eero Kajantie , Clive Osmond , Terho Lehtimäki , Jorma S Viikari , Mika Kähönen , Nicole M Warrington , Stephen J Lye , Lyle J Palmer , Carla M T Tiesler , Claudia Flexeder , Grant W Montgomery , Sarah E Medland , Albert Hofman , Hakon Hakonarson , Mònica Guxens , Meike Bartels , Veikko Salomaa , ReproGen Consortium , Joanne M Murabito , Jaakko Kaprio , Thorkild I A Sørensen , Ferran Ballester , Hans Bisgaard , Dorret I Boomsma , Gerard H Koppelman , Struan F A Grant , Vincent W V Jaddoe , Nicholas G Martin , Joachim Heinrich , Craig E Pennell , Olli T Raitakari , Johan G Eriksson , George Davey Smith , Elina Hyppönen , Marjo-Riitta Järvelin , Mark I McCarthy , Samuli Ripatti , Elisabeth Widén , Early Growth Genetics (EGG) Consortium

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 11 new loci for anthropometric traits and provides insights into genetic architecture.

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Genome-wide association study of lung function decline in adults with and without asthma.

J Allergy Clin Immunol     Medea Imboden , Emmanuelle Bouzigon , Ivan Curjuric , Adaikalavan Ramasamy , Ashish Kumar , Dana B Hancock , Jemma B Wilk , Judith M Vonk , Gian A Thun , Valerie Siroux , Rachel Nadif , Florent Monier , Juan R Gonzalez , Matthias Wjst , Joachim Heinrich , Laura R Loehr , Nora Franceschini , Kari E North , Janine Altmüller , Gerard H Koppelman , Stefano Guerra , Florian Kronenberg , Mark Lathrop , Miriam F Moffatt , George T O'Connor , David P Strachan , Dirkje S Postma , Stephanie J London , Christian Schindler , Manolis Kogevinas , Francine Kauffmann , Debbie L Jarvis , Florence Demenais , Nicole M Probst-Hensch

Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height.

Nature     Hana Lango Allen , Karol Estrada , Guillaume Lettre , Sonja I Berndt , Michael N Weedon , Fernando Rivadeneira , Cristen J Willer , Anne U Jackson , Sailaja Vedantam , Soumya Raychaudhuri , Teresa Ferreira , Andrew R Wood , Robert J Weyant , Ayellet V Segrè , Elizabeth K Speliotes , Eleanor Wheeler , Nicole Soranzo , Ju-Hyun Park , Jian Yang , Daniel Gudbjartsson , Nancy L Heard-Costa , Joshua C Randall , Lu Qi , Albert Vernon Smith , Reedik Mägi , Tomi Pastinen , Liming Liang , Iris M Heid , Jian'an Luan , Gudmar Thorleifsson , Thomas W Winkler , Michael E Goddard , Ken Sin Lo , Cameron Palmer , Tsegaselassie Workalemahu , Yurii S Aulchenko , Asa Johansson , M Carola Zillikens , Mary F Feitosa , Tõnu Esko , Toby Johnson , Shamika Ketkar , Peter Kraft , Massimo Mangino , Inga Prokopenko , Devin Absher , Eva Albrecht , Florian Ernst , Nicole L Glazer , Caroline Hayward , Jouke-Jan Hottenga , Kevin B Jacobs , Joshua W Knowles , Zoltán Kutalik , Keri L Monda , Ozren Polasek , 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Genome-wide association of anthropometric traits in African- and African-derived populations.

Hum Mol Genet     Sun J Kang , Charleston W K Chiang , Cameron D Palmer , Bamidele O Tayo , Guillaume Lettre , Johannah L Butler , Rachel Hackett , Adebowale A Adeyemo , Candace Guiducci , Ilze Berzins , Thutrang T Nguyen , Tao Feng , Amy Luke , Daniel Shriner , Kristin Ardlie , Charles Rotimi , Rainford Wilks , Terrence Forrester , Colin A McKenzie , Helen N Lyon , Richard S Cooper , Xiaofeng Zhu , Joel N Hirschhorn

The role of height-associated loci identified in genome wide association studies in the determination of pediatric stature.

BMC Med Genet     Jianhua Zhao , Mingyao Li , Jonathan P Bradfield , Haitao Zhang , Frank D Mentch , Kai Wang , Patrick M Sleiman , Cecilia E Kim , Joseph T Glessner , Cuiping Hou , Brendan J Keating , Kelly A Thomas , Maria L Garris , Sandra Deliard , Edward C Frackelton , F George Otieno , Rosetta M Chiavacci , Robert I Berkowitz , Hakon Hakonarson , Struan F A Grant

Meta-analysis of genome-wide scans for human adult stature identifies novel Loci and associations with measures of skeletal frame size.

PLoS Genet     Nicole Soranzo , Fernando Rivadeneira , Usha Chinappen-Horsley , Ida Malkina , J Brent Richards , Naomi Hammond , Lisette Stolk , Alexandra Nica , Michael Inouye , Albert Hofman , Jonathan Stephens , Eleanor Wheeler , Pascal Arp , Rhian Gwilliam , P Mila Jhamai , Simon Potter , Amy Chaney , Mohammed J R Ghori , Radhi Ravindrarajah , Sergey Ermakov , Karol Estrada , Huibert A P Pols , Frances M Williams , Wendy L McArdle , Joyce B van Meurs , Ruth J F Loos , Emmanouil T Dermitzakis , Kourosh R Ahmadi , Deborah J Hart , Willem H Ouwehand , Nicholas J Wareham , Inês Barroso , Manjinder S Sandhu , David P Strachan , Gregory Livshits , Timothy D Spector , André G Uitterlinden , Panos Deloukas

Genetic determinants of height growth assessed longitudinally from infancy to adulthood in the northern Finland birth cohort 1966.

PLoS Genet.     Ulla Sovio , Amanda J Bennett , Iona Y Millwood , John Molitor , Paul F O'Reilly , Nicholas J Timpson , Marika Kaakinen , Jaana Laitinen , Jari Haukka , Demetris Pillas , Ioanna Tzoulaki , Jassy Molitor , Clive Hoggart , Lachlan J M Coin , John Whittaker , Anneli Pouta , Anna-Liisa Hartikainen , Nelson B Freimer , Elisabeth Widen , Leena Peltonen , Paul Elliott , Mark I McCarthy , Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin