학술논문
Identification, replication, and fine-mapping of Loci associated with adult height in individuals of african ancestry.
Document Type
article
Author
Amidou N'Diaye; Gary K Chen; Cameron D Palmer; Bing Ge; Bamidele Tayo; Rasika A Mathias; Jingzhong Ding; Michael A Nalls; Adebowale Adeyemo; Véronique Adoue; Christine B Ambrosone; Larry Atwood; Elisa V Bandera; Lewis C Becker; Sonja I Berndt; Leslie Bernstein; William J Blot; Eric Boerwinkle; Angela Britton; Graham Casey; Stephen J Chanock; Ellen Demerath; Sandra L Deming; W Ryan Diver; Caroline Fox; Tamara B Harris; Dena G Hernandez; Jennifer J Hu; Sue A Ingles; Esther M John; Craig Johnson; Brendan Keating; Rick A Kittles; Laurence N Kolonel; Stephen B Kritchevsky; Loic Le Marchand; Kurt Lohman; Jiankang Liu; Robert C Millikan; Adam Murphy; Solomon Musani; Christine Neslund-Dudas; Kari E North; Sarah Nyante; Adesola Ogunniyi; Elaine A Ostrander; George Papanicolaou; Sanjay Patel; Curtis A Pettaway; Michael F Press; Susan Redline; Jorge L Rodriguez-Gil; Charles Rotimi; Benjamin A Rybicki; Babatunde Salako; Pamela J Schreiner; Lisa B Signorello; Andrew B Singleton; Janet L Stanford; Alex H Stram; Daniel O Stram; Sara S Strom; Bhoom Suktitipat; Michael J Thun; John S Witte; Lisa R Yanek; Regina G Ziegler; Wei Zheng; Xiaofeng Zhu; Joseph M Zmuda; Alan B Zonderman; Michele K Evans; Yongmei Liu; Diane M Becker; Richard S Cooper; Tomi Pastinen; Brian E Henderson; Joel N Hirschhorn; Guillaume Lettre; Christopher A Haiman
Source
PLoS Genetics, Vol 7, Iss 10, p e1002298 (2011)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
1553-7390
1553-7404
1553-7404
Abstract
Adult height is a classic polygenic trait of high heritability (h(2) approximately 0.8). More than 180 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), identified mostly in populations of European descent, are associated with height. These variants convey modest effects and explain approximately10% of the variance in height. Discovery efforts in other populations, while limited, have revealed loci for height not previously implicated in individuals of European ancestry. Here, we performed a meta-analysis of genome-wide association (GWA) results for adult height in 20,427 individuals of African ancestry with replication in up to 16,436 African Americans. We found two novel height loci (Xp22-rs12393627, P = 3.4×10(-12) and 2p14-rs4315565, P = 1.2×10(-8)). As a group, height associations discovered in European-ancestry samples replicate in individuals of African ancestry (P = 1.7×10(-4) for overall replication). Fine-mapping of the European height loci in African-ancestry individuals showed an enrichment of SNPs that are associated with expression of nearby genes when compared to the index European height SNPs (P