Six novel susceptibility Loci for early-onset androgenetic alopecia and their unexpected association with common diseases.

Six novel susceptibility Loci for early-onset androgenetic alopecia and their unexpected association with common diseases.

Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) is a highly heritable condition and the most common form of hair loss in humans. Susceptibility loci have been described on the X chromosome and chromosome 20, but these loci explain a minority of its heritable variance. We conducted a large-scale meta-analysis of seven g...

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Main Authors: Rui Li, Felix F Brockschmidt, Amy K Kiefer, Hreinn Stefansson, Dale R Nyholt, Kijoung Song, Sita H Vermeulen, Stavroula Kanoni, Daniel Glass, Sarah E Medland, Maria Dimitriou, Dawn Waterworth, Joyce Y Tung, Frank Geller, Stefanie Heilmann, Axel M Hillmer, Veronique Bataille, Sibylle Eigelshoven, Sandra Hanneken, Susanne Moebus, Christine Herold, Martin den Heijer, Grant W Montgomery, Panos Deloukas, Nicholas Eriksson, Andrew C Heath, Tim Becker, Patrick Sulem, Massimo Mangino, Peter Vollenweider, Tim D Spector, George Dedoussis, Nicholas G Martin, Lambertus A Kiemeney, Vincent Mooser, Kari Stefansson, David A Hinds, Markus M Nöthen, J Brent Richards
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-05-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3364959?pdf=render

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