Abstract
Northwestern Europeans are among the tallest of human populations. The increase in body height in these people appears to have reached a plateau, suggesting the ubiquitous presence of an optimal environment in which genetic factors may have exerted a particularly strong influence on human growth. Therefore, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of body height using 2.2 million markers in 10 074 individuals from three Dutch and one German population-based cohorts. Upon genotyping, the 12 most significantly height-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from this GWAS in 6912 additional individuals of Dutch and Swedish origin, a genetic variant (rs6717918) on chromosome 2q37.1 was found to be associated with height at a genome-wide significance level (P
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 3516-3524 |
Journal | Human Molecular Genetics |
Volume | 18 |
Issue number | 18 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2009 |
Cohort Studies
- Netherlands Twin Register (NTR)