Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for height and body mass index in ∼700000 individuals of European ancestry.

L, Yengo; J, Sidorenko; KE, Kemper; Z, Zheng; AR, Wood; MN, Weedon; TM, Frayling; J, Hirschhorn; J, Yang; PM, Visscher

doi:10.1093/hmg/ddy271

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Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for height and body mass index in ∼700000 individuals of European ancestry.

Published in Human molecular genetics • Oct 1, 2018

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Yengo L

Sidorenko J

Kemper KE

Abstract

Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of height and body mass index (BMI) in ∼250000 European participants have led to the discovery of ∼700 and ∼100 nearly independent single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with these traits, respectively. Here we combine summary statistics from ...

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