Bone mineral density loci specific to the skull portray potential pleiotropic effects on craniosynostosis

Abstract Skull bone mineral density (SK-BMD) provides a suitable trait for the discovery of key genes in bone biology, particularly to intramembranous ossification, not captured at other skeletal sites. We perform a genome-wide association meta-analysis (n ~ 43,800) of SK-BMD, identifying 59 loci, c...

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Main Authors: Carolina Medina-Gomez, Benjamin H. Mullin, Alessandra Chesi, Vid Prijatelj, John P. Kemp, Chen Shochat-Carvalho, Katerina Trajanoska, Carol Wang, Raimo Joro, Tavia E. Evans, Katharina E. Schraut, Ruifang Li-Gao, Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia, M. Carola Zillikens, Kun Zhu, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Daniel S. Evans, Maria Nethander, Maria J. Knol, Gudmar Thorleifsson, Ivana Prokic, Babette Zemel, Linda Broer, Fiona E. McGuigan, Natasja M. van Schoor, Sjur Reppe, Mikolaj A. Pawlak, Stuart H. Ralston, Nathalie van der Velde, Mattias Lorentzon, Kari Stefansson, Hieab H. H. Adams, Scott G. Wilson, M. Arfan Ikram, John P. Walsh, Timo A. Lakka, Kaare M. Gautvik, James F. Wilson, Eric S. Orwoll, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Klaus Bønnelykke, Andre G. Uitterlinden, Unnur Styrkársdóttir, Kristina E. Akesson, Timothy D. Spector, Jonathan H. Tobias, Claes Ohlsson, Janine F. Felix, Hans Bisgaard, Struan F. A. Grant, J. Brent Richards, David M. Evans, Bram van der Eerden, Jeroen van de Peppel, Cheryl Ackert-Bicknell, David Karasik, Erika Kague, Fernando Rivadeneira
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-04869-0