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Study Report - GWAS of height in individuals of Dutch, German and Swedish origin (HGVST369)| HGVbaseG2P identifier | HGVST369 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Study name | GWAS of height in individuals of Dutch, German and Swedish origin | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Phenotype(s) tested | Height |
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| Study design | Quantitative trait analysis with replication | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Genotype Platforms |
Affymetrix, Illumina & Perlegen 2,228,850 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 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(combined) = 3.4 x 10(-9)). Notably, a second SNP (rs6718438) located approximately 450 bp away and in strong LD (r(2) = 0.77) with rs6717918 was previously found to be suggestive of a height association in 29 820 individuals of mainly northwestern European ancestry, and the over-expression of a nearby natriuretic peptide precursor type C (NPPC) gene, has been associated with overgrowth and skeletal anomalies. We also found a SNP (rs10472828) located on 5p14 near the natriuretic peptide receptor 3 (NPR3) gene, encoding a receptor of the NPPC ligand, to be associated with body height (P(combined) = 2.1 x 10(-7)). Taken together, these results suggest that variation in the C-type natriuretic peptide signaling pathway, involving the NPPC and NPR3 genes, plays an important role in determining human body height. | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Cross-references |
NHGRI GWAS catalog study annotation for HGVST369 |
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| Background | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Objectives | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Key results | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Conclusions | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Reason for study size | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Study power | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources of bias | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Limitations | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Acknowledgements | Not supplied | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Other citations |
Hindorff LA, Sethupathy P, Junkins HA et al.
Potential etiologic and functional implications of genome-wide association loci for human diseases and traits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences U S A. 2009 May 27
Estrada K, Krawczak M, Schreiber S et al.
A genome-wide association study of northwestern Europeans involves the C-type natriuretic peptide signaling pathway in the etiology of human height variation. Human molecular genetics 2009;18(18):3516-24 |
