Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height.

Most common human traits and diseases have a polygenic pattern of inheritance: DNA sequence variants at many genetic loci influence the phenotype. Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified more than 600 variants associated with human traits, but these typically explain small fractions of...

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Main Authors: Lango Allen, H, Estrada, K, Lettre, G, Berndt, S, Weedon, M, Rivadeneira, F, Willer, C, Jackson, A, Vedantam, S, Raychaudhuri, S, Ferreira, T, Wood, A, Weyant, R, Segrè, A, Speliotes, E, Wheeler, E, Soranzo, N, Park, J, Yang, J, Gudbjartsson, D, Heard-Costa, N, Randall, J, Qi, L, Vernon Smith, A, Mägi, R
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2010