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- Title
A common variant of HMGA2 is associated with adult and childhood height in the general population.
- Authors
Weedon, Michael N.; Lettre, Guillaume; Freathy, Rachel M.; Lindgren, Cecilia M.; Voight, Benjamin F.; Perry, John R. B.; Elliott, Katherine S.; Hackett, Rachel; Guiducci, Candace; Shields, Beverley; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Lango, Hana; Lyssenko, Valeriya; Timpson, Nicholas J.; Burtt, Noel P.; Rayner, Nigel W.; Saxena, Richa; Ardlie, Kristin; Tobias, Jonathan H.; Ness, Andrew R.
- Abstract
Human height is a classic, highly heritable quantitative trait. To begin to identify genetic variants influencing height, we examined genome-wide association data from 4,921 individuals. Common variants in the HMGA2 oncogene, exemplified by rs1042725, were associated with height (P = 4 × 10−8). HMGA2 is also a strong biological candidate for height, as rare, severe mutations in this gene alter body size in mice and humans, so we tested rs1042725 in additional samples. We confirmed the association in 19,064 adults from four further studies (P = 3 × 10−11, overall P = 4 × 10−16, including the genome-wide association data). We also observed the association in children (P = 1 × 10−6, N = 6,827) and a tall/short case-control study (P = 4 × 10−6, N = 3,207). We estimate that rs1042725 explains ∼0.3% of population variation in height (∼0.4 cm increased adult height per C allele). There are few examples of common genetic variants reproducibly associated with human quantitativetraits; these results represent, to our knowledge, the first consistently replicated association with adult and childhood height.
- Subjects
STATURE; BODY size; HUMAN genetic variation; GENOMES; GENETICS; GENETIC mutation
- Publication
Nature Genetics, 2007, Vol 39, Issue 10, p1245
- ISSN
1061-4036
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/ng2121