Alex W. Hewitt
Menzies Research Institute
482 Papers
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Alex W. Hewitt is an academic researcher from Menzies Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 62, co-authored 425 publications. Previous affiliations of Alex W. Hewitt include Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital & University of Tasmania.
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A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants
Lars G. Fritsche,Wilmar Igl,Jessica N. Cooke Bailey,Felix Grassmann,Sebanti Sengupta,Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham,Kathryn P. Burdon,Scott J. Hebbring,Cindy Wen,Mathias Gorski,Ivana K. Kim,David Cho,Donald J. Zack,Donald J. Zack,Eric H. Souied,Hendrik P. N. Scholl,Hendrik P. N. Scholl,Elisa Bala,Kristine ELee,David J. Hunter,Rebecca J. Sardell,Paul Mitchell,Joanna E. Merriam,Valentina Cipriani,Valentina Cipriani,Joshua D. Hoffman,Tina Schick,Yara T. E. Lechanteur,Robyn H. Guymer,Matthew P. Johnson,Yingda Jiang,Chloe M. Stanton,Gabri'lle H.S. Buitendijk,Xiaowei Zhan,Xiaowei Zhan,Alan M. Kwong,Alexis Boleda,Matthew Brooks,Linn Gieser,Rinki Ratnapriya,Kari Branham,Johanna R. Foerster,John R. Heckenlively,Mohammad Othman,Brendan J. Vote,Helena Liang,Emmanuelle Souzeau,Ian L. McAllister,Timothy Isaacs,Janette Hall,Stewart Lake,David A. Mackey,David A. Mackey,David A. Mackey,Ian J. Constable,Jamie E Craig,Terrie Kitchner,Zhenglin Yang,Zhenglin Yang,Zhiguang Su,Hongrong Luo,Daniel Chen,Hong Ouyang,Ken Flagg,Danni Lin,Guanping Mao,Henry Ferreyra,Klaus Stark,Claudia N von Strachwitz,Armin Wolf,Caroline Brandl,G. Rudolph,Matthias Olden,Margaux A. Morrison,Denise J. Morgan,Matthew Schu,Jeeyun Ahn,Giuliana Silvestri,Evangelia E. Tsironi,Kyu Hyung Park,Lindsay A. Farrer,Anton Orlin,Alexander J. Brucker,Mingyao Li,Christine A. Curcio,Saddek Mohand-Sa'd,José-Alain Sahel,Isabelle Audo,Mustapha Benchaboune,Angela J. Cree,Christina A Rennie,S. V. Goverdhan,Michelle Grunin,Shira Hagbi-Levi,Peter A. Campochiaro,Nicholas Katsanis,Frank G. Holz,Frédéric Blond,Frédéric Blond,Frédéric Blond,Hél'ne Blanché,Jean Fran ois Deleuze,Robert P. Igo,Barbara Truitt,Neal S. Peachey,Neal S. Peachey,Stacy M. Meuer,Chelsea E. Myers,Emily L. Moore,Ronald Klein,Michael A. Hauser,Eric A. Postel,Monique D. Courtenay,Stephen G. Schwartz,Jaclyn L. Kovach,William K. Scott,Gerald Liew,Ava Grace Tan,Bamini Gopinath,John C. Merriam,R. Theodore Smith,R. Theodore Smith,Jane C. Khan,Jane C. Khan,Jane C. Khan,Humma Shahid,Humma Shahid,Anthony T. Moore,Anthony T. Moore,Anthony T. Moore,J Allie McGrath,Renee Laux,Milam A. Brantley,Anita Agarwal,Lebriz Ersoy,Albert Caramoy,Thomas Langmann,Nicole T.M. Saksens,Eiko Kde Jong,Carel B. Hoyng,Melinda Cain,Andrea J. Richardson,Tammy M. Martin,John Blangero,Daniel E. Weeks,Bal Dhillon,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Kimberly F. Doheny,Jane Romm,Caroline C W Klaver,Caroline Hayward,Michael B. Gorin,Michael L. Klein,Paul N. Baird,Anneke I. den Hollander,Sascha Fauser,John R. WYates,John R. WYates,John R. WYates,Rando Allikmets,Jie Jin Wang,Debra A. Schaumberg,Debra A. Schaumberg,Barbara E.K. Klein,Stephanie A. Hagstrom,Itay Chowers,Andrew J. Lotery,Thierry Léveillard,Thierry Léveillard,Thierry Léveillard,Kang Zhang,Kang Zhang,Murray H. Brilliant,Alex W. Hewitt,Alex W. Hewitt,Alex W. Hewitt,Anand Swaroop,Emily Y. Chew,Margaret A. Pericak-Vance,Margaret M. DeAngelis,Dwight Stambolian,Jonathan L. Haines,Sudha K. Iyengar,Bernhard H. F. Weber,Gon'alo R. Abecasis,Iris M. Heid +185 more
TL;DR: The results support the hypothesis that rare coding variants can pinpoint causal genes within known genetic loci and illustrate that applying the approach systematically to detect new loci requires extremely large sample sizes.
Large-scale cis- and trans-eQTL analyses identify thousands of genetic loci and polygenic scores that regulate blood gene expression
Urmo Võsa,Annique Claringbould,Annique Claringbould,Harm-Jan Westra,Marc Jan Bonder,Patrick Deelen,Biao Zeng,Holger Kirsten,Ashis Saha,Roman Kreuzhuber,Roman Kreuzhuber,Roman Kreuzhuber,Seyhan Yazar,Harm Brugge,Roy Oelen,Dylan H. de Vries,Monique G. P. van der Wijst,Silva Kasela,Natalia Pervjakova,Isabel Alves,Marie-Julie Favé,Mawusse Agbessi,Mark W. Christiansen,Rick Jansen,Ilkka Seppälä,Lin Tong,Alexander Teumer,Katharina Schramm,Gibran Hemani,Joost Verlouw,Hanieh Yaghootkar,Hanieh Yaghootkar,Hanieh Yaghootkar,Reyhan Sönmez Flitman,Reyhan Sönmez Flitman,Andrew A. Brown,Andrew A. Brown,Viktorija Kukushkina,Anette Kalnapenkis,Sina Rüeger,Eleonora Porcu,Jaanika Kronberg,Johannes Kettunen,Bernett Lee,Futao Zhang,Ting Qi,Jose Alquicira Hernandez,Wibowo Arindrarto,Frank Beutner,Peter A C 't Hoen,Joyce B. J. van Meurs,Jenny van Dongen,Maarten van Iterson,Morris A. Swertz,Julia Dmitrieva,Mahmoud Elansary,Benjamin P. Fairfax,Michel Georges,Bastiaan T. Heijmans,Alex W. Hewitt,Mika Kähönen,Yungil Kim,Yungil Kim,Julian C. Knight,Peter Kovacs,Knut Krohn,Shuang Li,Markus Loeffler,Urko M. Marigorta,Urko M. Marigorta,Hailang Mei,Yukihide Momozawa,Martina Müller-Nurasyid,Matthias Nauck,Michel G. Nivard,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Jonathan K. Pritchard,Olli T. Raitakari,Olli T. Raitakari,Olaf Rötzschke,Eline Slagboom,Coen D.A. Stehouwer,Michael Stumvoll,Patrick F. Sullivan,Joachim Thiery,Anke Tönjes,Jan H. Veldink,Uwe Völker,Robert Warmerdam,Cisca Wijmenga,Morris Swertz,Anand Kumar Andiappan,Grant W. Montgomery,Samuli Ripatti,Markus Perola,Zoltán Kutalik,Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis,Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis,Sven Bergmann,Sven Bergmann,Timothy M. Frayling,Holger Prokisch,Habibul Ahsan,Brandon L. Pierce,Terho Lehtimäki,Dorret I. Boomsma,Bruce M. Psaty,Sina A. Gharib,Philip Awadalla,Lili Milani,Willem H. Ouwehand,Willem H. Ouwehand,Willem H. Ouwehand,Kate Downes,Kate Downes,Oliver Stegle,Oliver Stegle,Alexis Battle,Peter M. Visscher,Jian Yang,Jian Yang,Markus Scholz,Joseph E. Powell,Joseph E. Powell,Greg Gibson,Tõnu Esko,Lude Franke +126 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed cis-and trans-expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) analyses using blood-derived expression from 31,684 individuals through the eQTLGen Consortium.
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A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height
Loic Yengo,Sailaja Vedantam,Eirini Marouli,Julia Sidorenko,Eric Bartell,Saori Sakaue,Marielisa Graff,Anders U. Eliasen,Yunxuan Jiang,Sridharan Raghavan,Jenkai Miao,Joshua Daniel Arias,Ronen E. Mukamel,Cassandra N. Spracklen,Xianyong Yin,Shyh-Huei Chen,Teresa Ferreira,JI Yingjie,Kreete Lüll,Kuang Lin,Deborah E. Malden,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Moara Machado,Amy Moore,Sina Rüeger,Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia,Masato Akiyama,Matthew A. Allison,Marcus Alvarez,Mette K. Andersen,Alireza Ani,Vivek Appadurai,Liubov Arbeeva,Seema Bhaskar,Lawrence F. Bielak,Sailalitha Bollepalli,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Jette Bork-Jensen,Jonathan P. Bradfield,Yuki Bradford,Peter S. Braund,Jennifer A. Brody,Kristoffer Sølvsten Burgdorf,Brian E. Cade,Hui Cai,Qiuyin Cai,Archie Campbell,Marisa Cañadas-Garre,Eulalia Catamo,Jin-Fang Chai,Xiaoran Chai,Li Chang,Yipeng Chang,Chien-Hsiun Chen,Alessandra Chesi,Seung Hoan Choi,Ren-Hua Chung,Massimiliano Cocca,Maria Pina Concas,Christian Couture,Gabriel Cuellar-Partida,Rebecca D Danning,E. Warwick Daw,Frauke Degenhard,Graciela E. Delgado,Alessandro P Delitala,Ayse Demirkan,Xuan Deng,Poornima Devineni,Alexander Dietl,Maria Dimitriou,Latchezar Dimitrov,Rajkumar Dorajoo,Arif B. Ekici,Jorgen Engmann,Zammy Fairhurst-Hunter,Aliki-Eleni Farmaki,Jessica D. Faul,Juan Carlos Fernández-López,Lukas Forer,Margherita Francescatto,Sandra Freitag-Wolf,Christian Fuchsberger,Tessel E. Galesloot,Yan Gao,Zishan Gao,Frank Geller,Olga Giannakopoulou,Franco Giulianini,Anette P. Gjesing,Anuj Goel,Scott D. Gordon,Mathias Gorski,Sarah E. Graham,Jakob Grove,Xiuqing Guo,Stefan Gustafsson,Jeffrey Haessler,Thomas Hansen,Aki S. Havulinna,Simon Haworth,Jiang He,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Prashantha Hebbar,George Hindy,Yuk-Lam Ho,Edith Hofer,Elizabeth G. Holliday,Katrin Horn,Whitney E. Hornsby,Jouke-Jan Hottenga,Hongyan Huang,Jie Huang,Alicia Huerta-Chagoya,Jennifer E. Huffman,Yi Jen Hung,Shaofeng Huo,Mi Yeong Hwang,H. Iha,Daisuke Ikeda,Masato Isono,Anne U. Jackson,Susanne Jäger,Iris E. Jansen,Ingegerd Johansson,Jost B. Jonas,Anna Jonsson,Torben Jørgensen,Ioanna P. Kalafati,Masahiro Kanai,Stavroula Kanoni,Line Lund Kårhus,Anuradhani Kasturiratne,Tomohiro Katsuya,Takahisa Kawaguchi,Rachel L. Kember,Katherine A. Kentistou,Han Na Kim,Young-Jin Kim,Marcus E. Kleber,Maria J. Knol,Azra Kurbasic,Marie Lauzon,Phuong Le,Rod A. Lea,Jong-Young Lee,Hampton L. Leonard,Shengchao A. Li,Xiaohui Li,Xiaoyin Li,Jin Liang,Honghuang Lin,Shih-Yi Lin,Jun Liu,Xueping Liu,Ken Sin Lo,Jirong Long,Laura Lorés-Motta,Jian'an Luan,Valeriya Lyssenko,Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen,Anubha Mahajan,Vasiliki Mamakou,Massimo Mangino,Ani Manichaikul,Jonathan Marten,Manuel Mattheisen,L. Mavarani,Aaron McDaid,Karina Meidtner,Tori L. Melendez,Josep M. Mercader,Yuri Milaneschi,Jason E. Miller,Iona Y. Millwood,Pashupati P. Mishra,Ruth Mitchell,Line Tang Møllehave,Anna Morgan,Soeren Mucha,Matthias Munz,Masahiro Nakatochi,Christopher P. Nelson,Maria Nethander,Chu Won Nho,Aneta Aleksandra Nielsen,Ilja M. Nolte,Suraj S. Nongmaithem,Raymond Noordam,Ioanna Ntalla,Teresa Nutile,Anita Pandit,Paraskevi Christofidou,Katri Pärna,Marc Pauper,Eva R. B. Petersen,Liselotte Petersen,Niina Pitkänen,Ozren Polasek,Alaitz Poveda,Michael Preuss,Saiju Pyarajan,Laura M. Raffield,Hiromi Rakugi,Julia Ramirez,Asif Rasheed,Dennis Raven,Nigel W. Rayner,Carlos Riveros,Rebecca Rohde,Daniela Ruggiero,Sanni Ruotsalainen,Kathleen A. Ryan,Maria Sabater-Lleal,Richa Saxena,Markus Scholz,Anoop K. Sendamarai,Botong Shen,Jingchunzi Shi,Jae Hun Shin,Carlo Sidore,Xueling Sim,Colleen M. Sitlani,Roderick C. Slieker,Roelof A.J. Smit,Jennifer A. Smith,Laura Smyth,Lorraine Southam,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Liangdan Sun,Fumihiko Takeuchi,Divya Sri Priyanka Tallapragada,Kent D. Taylor,Bamidele O. Tayo,Catherine Tcheandjieu,Natalie Terzikhan,Paola Tesolin,Alexander Teumer,Elizabeth Theusch,Deborah J. Thompson,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Paul R. H. J. Timmers,Stella Trompet,Constance Turman,Simona Vaccargiu,Sander W. van der Laan,Peter J. van der Most,Jan B. van Klinken,Jessica van Setten,Shefali S. Verma,Niek Verweij,Yogasudha Veturi,Carol A. Wang,Chaolong Wang,Lihua Wang,Zhe Wang,Helen R. Warren,Wenjie Wei,Ananda R. Wickremasinghe,Matthias Wielscher,Kerri L. Wiggins,Bendik S. Winsvold,Andrew Wong,Yang Wu,Matthias Wuttke,Rong Xi,Tian Xie,Ken Yamamoto,Jingyun Yang,Jie Yao,Hannah Young,Noha A. Yousri,Lingyao Zeng,Weihua Zhang,Xinyuan Zhang,Jing Hua Zhao,Wei Zhao,Wei Zhou,Martina E. Zimmermann,Magdalena Zoledziewska,Linda S. Adair,Hieab H.H. Adams,Carlos A. Aguilar-Salinas,Fahd Al-Mulla,Donna K. Arnett,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Bjørn Olav Åsvold,John Attia,Bernhard Banas,Stefania Bandinelli,David A. Bennett,Tobias Bergler,Dwaipayan Bharadwaj,Ginevra Biino,Hans Bisgaard,Eric Boerwinkle,Carsten A. Böger,Klaus Bønnelykke,Dorret I. Boomsma,Anders D. Børglum,Judith B. Borja,Claude Bouchard,Donald W. Bowden,Ivan Brandslund,Ben Michael Brumpton,Julie E. Buring,Mark J. Caulfield,John C. Chambers,Giriraj R. Chandak,Stephen J. Chanock,Nish Chaturvedi,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Zhengming Chen,Ching-Yu Cheng,Ingrid E. Christophersen,Marina Ciullo,John W. Cole,Francis S. Collins,Richard S. Cooper,Miguel Cruz,Francesco Cucca,L. Adrienne Cupples,Michael J. Cutler,Scott M. Damrauer,Thomas Meinertz Dantoft,Gert J. de Borst,Lisette C. P. G. M. de Groot,Philip L. De Jager,Dominique P.V. de Kleijn,H. Janaka de Silva,George Dedoussis,Anneke I. den Hollander,Shufa Du,Douglas F. Easton,Petra J. M. Elders,A. Heather Eliassen,Patrick T. Ellinor,Sölve Elmståhl,Jeanette Erdmann,Michele K. Evans,Diane Fatkin,Bjarke Feenstra,Mary F. Feitosa,Luigi Ferrucci,Ian Ford,Myriam Fornage,Andre Franke,Paul W. Franks,Barry I. Freedman,Paolo Gasparini,Christian Gieger,Giorgia Girotto,Michael E. Goddard,Yvonne M. Golightly,Clicerio González-Villalpando,Penny Gordon-Larsen,Harald Grallert,Struan F.A. Grant,Niels Grarup,Lyn R. Griffiths,Leif Groop,Vilmundur Gudnason,Christopher A. Haiman,Hakon Hakonarson,Torben Hansen,Catharina A. Hartman,Andrew T. Hattersley,Caroline Hayward,Susan R. Heckbert,Chew-Kiat Heng,Christian Hengstenberg,Alex W. Hewitt,Haretsugu Hishigaki,Carel B. Hoyng,Paul L. Huang,Wei Huang,Steven C. Hunt,Kristian Hveem,Elina Hyppönen,William G. Iacono,Sahoko Ichihara,M. Arfan Ikram,Carmen R. Isasi,Rebecca D. Jackson,Marjo-Ritta Jarvelin,Zidan Jin,Karl-Heinz Jöckel,Peter K. Joshi,Pekka Jousilahti,J. Wouter Jukema,Mika Kähönen,Yoichiro Kamatani,Kui Dong Kang,Jaakko Kaprio,Sharon L.R. Kardia,Fredrik Karpe,Norihiro Kato,Frank Kee,Thorsten Kessler,Amit Khera,Chiea Chuen Khor,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Bong-Jo Kim,EunGyul Kim,Hyung Lae Kim,Paulus Kirchhof,M Kivimaki,Woon-Puay Koh,Heikki A. Koistinen,Genovefa Kolovou,Jaspal S. Kooner,Charles Kooperberg,Anna Köttgen,Peter Kovacs,Adriaan O. Kraaijeveld,Peter Kraft,R. Krauß,Meena Kumari,Zoltán Kutalik,Markku Laakso,Leslie A. Lange,Claudia Langenberg,Lenore J. Launer,Loic Le Marchand,Hye Jin Lee,Nanette R. Lee,Terho Lehtimäki,Huaixing Li,Liming Li,Wolfgang Liebig,Xu（林旭） Lin,Lars Lind,Allan Linneberg,Ching-Ti Liu,Jianjun Liu,Markus Loeffler,Barry London,Steven A. Lubitz,Stephen J. Lye,David A. Mackey,Reedik Mägi,Patrik K. E. Magnusson,Gregory M. Marcus,Pedro Marques Vidal,Nicholas G. Martin,Winfried März,Fumihiko Matsuda,Robert W. McGarrah,Matt McGue,Amy Jayne McKnight,Sarah E. Medland,Dan Mellström,Andres Metspalu,Braxton D. Mitchell,Paul Mitchell,Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori,Andrew D. Morris,Lorelei A. Mucci,Patricia B. Munroe,Mike A. Nalls,Saman Nazarian,Amanda E. Nelson,Matt Neville,Christopher Newton-Cheh,Christopher Sivert Nielsen,Markus M. Nöthen,Claes Ohlsson,Albertine J. Oldehinkel,Lorena Orozco,Katja Pahkala,Päivi Pajukanta,Colin N. A. Palmer,Esteban J. Parra,Cristian Pattaro,Oluf Pedersen,Craig E. Pennell,Brenda W.J.H. Penninx,Louis Pérusse,Annette Peters,Patricia A. Peyser,David J. Porteous,Danielle Posthuma,Chris Power,Peter P. Pramstaller,Michael A. Province,Qibin Qi,Jia Qu,Daniel J. Rader,Olli T. Raitakari,Sarju Ralhan,Loukianos S. Rallidis,Dabeeru C. Rao,Susan Redline,Dermot F. Reilly,Alexander P. Reiner,Sang Youl Rhee,Paul M. Ridker,Michiel Rienstra,Samuli Ripatti,Marylyn D. Ritchie,Dan M. Roden,Frits R. Rosendaal,Jerome I. Rotter,Igor Rudan,Femke Rutters,Charumathi Sabanayagam,Danish Saleheen,Veikko Salomaa,Nilesh J. Samani,Dharambir K. Sanghera,Naveed Sattar,Börge Schmidt,E. E. Schmidt,Reinhold Schmidt,Matthias B. Schulze,Heribert Schunkert,Laura J. Scott,Rodney J. Scott,Peter S. Sever,Eric J. Shiroma,M. Benjamin Shoemaker,Xiao-Ou Shu,Eleanor M. Simonsick,Mario Sims,Jai Rup Singh,Andrew B. Singleton,Moritz F. Sinner,J. Gustav Smith,Harold Snieder,Tim D. Spector,Meir J. Stampfer,Klaus Stark,David P. Strachan,Leen M 't Hart,Yasuharu Tabara,Hua Tang,Jean-Claude Tardif,Thangavel Alphonse Thanaraj,Nicholas J. Timpson,Anke Tönjes,Angelo Tremblay,Tiinamaija Tuomi,Jaakko Tuomilehto,María Teresa Tusié-Luna,André G. Uitterlinden,Rob M. van Dam,P. Van der Harst,Nathalie van der Velde,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Natasja M. van Schoor,Veronique Vitart,Uwe Völker,Peter Vollenweider,Henry Völzke,Scott I. Vrieze,Niels Wacher-Rodarte,Mark Walker,Ya Xing Wang,Nicholas J. Wareham,Richard M. Watanabe,Hugh Watkins,David R. Weir,Thomas Werge,Elisabeth Widen,Lynne R. Wilkens,Gonneke Willemsen,Walter C. Willett,James F. Wilson,Tien Yin Wong,Jeong Taek Woo,Alan F. Wright,Jer-Yuarn Wu,Huichun Xu,Chittaranjan S. Yajnik,Mitsuhiro Yokota,Jian-Min Yuan,Eleftheria Zeggini,Babette S. Zemel,Wei Zheng,Xiaofeng Zhu,Joseph M. Zmuda,Alan B. Zonderman,John-Anker Zwart,Daniel I. Chasman,Yoon Shin Cho,Iris M. Heid,Mark I. McCarthy,Maggie C.Y. Ng,Christopher J. O'Donnell,Fernando Rivadeneira,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Yan V. Sun,E. Shyong Tai,Michael Boehnke,Panos Deloukas,Anne E. Justice,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Ruth J. F. Loos,Karen L. Mohlke,Kari E. North,Kari Stefansson,Robin G. Walters,Thomas W. Winkler,Kristin L. Young,Po-ru Loh,Tõnu Esko,Themistocles L. Assimes,Adam Auton,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Cristen J. Willer,Adam E. Locke,Sonja I. Berndt,Guillaume Lettre,Timothy M. Frayling,Yukinori Okada,Andrew R. Wood,Peter M. Visscher,Joel N. Hirschhorn +617 more
TL;DR: In this article , the authors show that common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40-50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and associated regions requires huge sample sizes.
Genome-wide meta-analyses of multiancestry cohorts identify multiple new susceptibility loci for refractive error and myopia
Virginie J. M. Verhoeven,Pirro G. Hysi,Robert Wojciechowski,Robert Wojciechowski,Qiao Fan,Jeremy A. Guggenheim,René Höhn,Stuart MacGregor,Alex W. Hewitt,Alex W. Hewitt,Abhishek Nag,Ching-Yu Cheng,Ching-Yu Cheng,Ekaterina Yonova-Doing,Xin Zhou,M. Kamran Ikram,M. Kamran Ikram,Gabriëlle H.S. Buitendijk,George McMahon,John P. Kemp,Beate St Pourcain,Claire L. Simpson,Kari-Matti Mäkelä,Terho Lehtimäki,Mika Kähönen,Andrew D. Paterson,S. Mohsen Hosseini,Hoi Suen Wong,Liang Xu,Jost B. Jonas,Olavi Pärssinen,Juho Wedenoja,Shea Ping Yip,Daniel W.H. Ho,Daniel W.H. Ho,Chi Pui Pang,Li Jia Chen,Kathryn P. Burdon,Jamie E Craig,Barbara E.K. Klein,Ronald Klein,Toomas Haller,Andres Metspalu,Chiea Chuen Khor,Chiea Chuen Khor,E-Shyong Tai,Tin Aung,Tin Aung,Eranga N. Vithana,Wan Ting Tay,Veluchamy A. Barathi,Veluchamy A. Barathi,Myopia (Cream),Peng Chen,Ruoying Li,Jiemin Liao,Yingfeng Zheng,Rick Twee-Hee Ong,Angela Döring,Complications Trial,Complications (Dcct),David M. Evans,Nicholas J. Timpson,Annemieke J.M.H. Verkerk,Thomas Meitinger,Olli T. Raitakari,Felicia Hawthorne,Tim D. Spector,Lennart C. Karssen,Mario Pirastu,Federico Murgia,Wei Ang,Aniket Mishra,Grant W. Montgomery,Craig E. Pennell,Phillippa M. Cumberland,Ioana Cotlarciuc,Paul Mitchell,Jie Jin Wang,Jie Jin Wang,Maria Schache,Sarayut Janmahasatian,Robert P. Igo,Jonathan H. Lass,Emily Y. Chew,Sudha K. Iyengar,Theo G. M. F. Gorgels,Igor Rudan,Caroline Hayward,Alan F. Wright,Ozren Polasek,Zoran Vatavuk,James F. Wilson,Brian W Fleck,Tanja Zeller,Alireza Mirshahi,Christian P. Müller,André G. Uitterlinden,Fernando Rivadeneira,Johannes R. Vingerling,Albert Hofman,Ben A. Oostra,Najaf Amin,Arthur A.B. Bergen,Yik Ying Teo,Jugnoo S Rahi,Jugnoo S Rahi,Jugnoo S Rahi,Veronique Vitart,Cathy Williams,Paul N. Baird,Tien Yin Wong,Tien Yin Wong,Konrad Oexle,Norbert Pfeiffer,David A. Mackey,David A. Mackey,Terri L. Young,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Seang-Mei Saw,Seang-Mei Saw,Seang-Mei Saw,Joan E. Bailey-Wilson,Joan E. Bailey-Wilson,Dwight Stambolian,Caroline C W Klaver,Caroline C W Klaver,Christopher J Hammond,Christopher J Hammond +128 more
TL;DR: The CREAM consortium conducted genome-wide meta-analyses, which identified 16 new loci for refractive error in individuals of European ancestry and 8 were shared with Asians, and identified 8 additional associated loci.
Rare and low-frequency coding variants alter human adult height
Eirini Marouli,Mariaelisa Graff,Carolina Medina-Gomez,Ken Sin Lo,Andrew R. Wood,Troels R. Kjaer,Rebecca S. Fine,Yingchang Lu,Claudia Schurmann,Heather M. Highland,Sina Rüeger,Gudmar Thorleifsson,Anne E. Justice,David Lamparter,Kathleen Stirrups,Valérie Turcot,Kristin L. Young,Thomas W. Winkler,Tõnu Esko,Tugce Karaderi,Adam E. Locke,Nicholas G. D. Masca,Maggie C.Y. Ng,Poorva Mudgal,Manuel A. Rivas,Sailaja Vedantam,Anubha Mahajan,Xiuqing Guo,Gonçalo R. Abecasis,Katja K.H. Aben,Linda S. Adair,Dewan S. Alam,Eva Albrecht,Kristine H. Allin,Matthew A. Allison,Philippe Amouyel,Emil V. R. Appel,Dominique Arveiler,Folkert W. Asselbergs,Paul L. Auer,Beverley Balkau,Bernhard Banas,Lia E. Bang,Marianne Benn,Sven Bergmann,Lawrence F. Bielak,Matthias Blueher,Heiner Boeing,Eric Boerwinkle,Carsten A. Boeger,Lori L. Bonnycastle,Jette Bork-Jensen,Michiel L. Bots,Erwin P. Bottinger,Donald W. Bowden,Ivan Brandslund,Gerome Breen,Murray H. Brilliant,Linda Broer,Amber A. Burt,Adam S. Butterworth,David J. Carey,Mark J. Caulfield,John C. Chambers,Daniel I. Chasman,Yii-Der Ida Chen,Rajiv Chowdhury,Cramer Christensen,Audrey Y. Chu,Massimiliano Cocca,Francis S. Collins,James P. Cook,Janie Corley,Jordi Corominas Galbany,Amanda J. Cox,Gabriel Cuellar-Partida,John Danesh,Gail Davies,Paul I.W. de Bakker,Gert J. de Borst,Simon de Denus,Mark C.H. De Groot,Renée de Mutsert,Ian J. Deary,George Dedoussis,Ellen W. Demerath,Anneke I. den Hollander,Joe Dennis,Emanuele Di Angelantonio,Fotios Drenos,Mengmeng Du,Alison M. Dunning,Douglas F. Easton,Tapani Ebeling,Todd L. Edwards,Patrick T. Ellinor,Paul Elliott,Evangelos Evangelou,Aliki-Eleni Farmaki,Jessica D. Faul,Mary F. Feitosa,Shuang Feng,Ele Ferrannini,Marco M Ferrario,Jean Ferrières,Jose C. Florez,Ian Ford,Myriam Fornage,Paul W. Franks,Ruth Frikke-Schmidt,Tessel E. Galesloot,Wei Gan,Ilaria Gandin,Paolo Gasparini,Vilmantas Giedraitis,Ayush Giri,Giorgia Girotto,Scott D. Gordon,Penny Gordon-Larsen,Mathias Gorski,Niels Grarup,Megan L. Grove,Vilmundur Gudnason,Stefan Gustafsson,Torben Hansen,Kathleen Mullan Harris,Tamara B. Harris,Andrew T. Hattersley,Caroline Hayward,Liang He,Iris M. Heid,Kauko Heikkilä,Øyvind Helgeland,Jussi Hernesniemi,Alex W. Hewitt,Lynne J. Hocking,Mette Hollensted,Oddgeir L. Holmen,G. Kees Hovingh,Joanna M. M. Howson,Carel B. Hoyng,Paul L. Huang,Kristian Hveem,M. Arfan Ikram,Erik Ingelsson,Anne U. Jackson,Jan-Håkan Jansson,Gail P. Jarvik,Gorm B. Jensen,Min A. Jhun,Yucheng Jia,Xuejuan Jiang,Stefan Johansson,Marit E. Jørgensen,Torben Jørgensen,Pekka Jousilahti,J. Wouter Jukema,Bratati Kahali,René S. Kahn,Mika Kähönen,Pia R. Kamstrup,Stavroula Kanoni,Jaakko Kaprio,Maria Karaleftheri,Sharon L.R. Kardia,Fredrik Karpe,Frank Kee,Renske Keeman,Lambertus A. Kiemeney,Hidetoshi Kitajima,Kirsten B. Kluivers,Thomas D. Kocher,Pirjo Komulainen,Jukka Kontto,Jaspal S. Kooner,Charles Kooperberg,Peter Kovacs,Jennifer Kriebel,Helena Kuivaniemi,Sébastien Küry,Johanna Kuusisto,Martina La Bianca,Markku Laakso,Timo A. Lakka,Ethan M. Lange,Leslie A. Lange,Carl D. Langefeld,Claudia Langenberg,Eric B. Larson,I-Te Lee,Terho Lehtimäki,Cora E. Lewis,Huaixing Li,Jin Li,Ruifang Li-Gao,Honghuang Lin,Li-An Lin,Xu Lin,Lars Lind,Jaana Lindström,Allan Linneberg,Y Liu,Yongmei Liu,Artitaya Lophatananon,Jian'an Luan,Steven A. Lubitz,Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen,David A. Mackey,Pamela A. F. Madden,Alisa K. Manning,Satu Männistö,Gaëlle Marenne,Jonathan Marten,Nicholas G. Martin,Angela L. Mazul,Karina Meidtner,Andres Metspalu,Paul Mitchell,Karen L. Mohlke,Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori,Anna Morgan,Andrew D. Morris,Andrew P. Morris,Martina Mueller-Nurasyid,Patricia B. Munroe,Mike A. Nalls,Matthias Nauck,Christopher P. Nelson,Matt Neville,Sune F. Nielsen,Kjell Nikus,Pål R. Njølstad,Børge G. Nordestgaard,Ioanna Ntalla,Jeffrey R. O'Connel,Heikki Oksa,Loes M. Olde Loohuis,Roel A. Ophoff,Katharine R. Owen,Chris J. Packard,Sandosh Padmanabhan,Colin N. A. Palmer,Gerard Pasterkamp,Aniruddh P. Patel,Alison Pattie,Oluf Pedersen,Peggy L. Peissig,Gina M. Peloso,Craig E. Pennell,Markus Perola,James A. Perry,John R. B. Perry,Thomas N. Person,Ailith Pirie,Ozren Polasek,Danielle Posthuma,Olli T. Raitakari,Asif Rasheed,Rainer Rauramaa,Dermot F. Reilly,Alexander P. Reiner,Frida Renström,Paul M. Ridker,John D. Rioux,Neil Robertson,Antonietta Robino,Olov Rolandsson,Igor Rudan,Katherine S. Ruth,Danish Saleheen,Veikko Salomaa,Nilesh J. Samani,Kevin Sandow,Yadav Sapkota,Naveed Sattar,Marjanka K. Schmidt,Pamela J. Schreiner,Matthias B. Schulze,Robert A. Scott,Marcelo P. Segura-Lepe,Svati H. Shah,Xueling Sim,Suthesh Sivapalaratnam,Kerrin S. Small,Albert V. Smith,Jennifer A. Smith,Lorraine Southam,Tim D. Spector,Elizabeth K. Speliotes,John M. Starr,Valgerdur Steinthorsdottir,Heather M. Stringham,Michael Stumvoll,Praveen Surendran,Leen M 't Hart,Katherine E. Tansey,Jean-Claude Tardif,Kent D. Taylor,Alexander Teumer,Deborah J. Thompson,Unnur Thorsteinsdottir,Betina H. Thuesen,Anke Toenjes,Gerard Tromp,Stella Trompet,Emmanouil Tsafantakis,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Anne Tybjærg-Hansen,Jonathan Tyrer,Rudolf Uher,André G. Uitterlinden,Sheila Ulivi,Sander W. van der Laan,Andries R. van der Leij,Cornelia M. van Duijn,Natasja M. van Schoor,Jessica van Setten,Anette Varbo,Tibor V. Varga,Rohit Varma,Digna R. Velez Edwards,Sita H. Vermeulen,Henrik Vestergaard,Veronique Vitart,Thomas F. Vogt,Diego Vozzi,Mark Walker,Feijie Wang,Carol A. Wang,Shuai Wang,Yiqin Wang,Nicholas J. Wareham,Helen R. Warren,Jennifer Wessel,Sara M. Willems,James G. Wilson,Daniel R. Witte,Michael O. Woods,Ying Wu,Hanieh Yaghootkar,Jie Yao,Pang Yao,Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong,Robin Young,Eleftheria Zeggini,Xiaowei Zhan,Weihua Zhang,Jing Hua Zhao,Wei Zhao,He Zheng,Wei Zhou,Jerome I. Rotter,Michael Boehnke,Sekar Kathiresan,Mark I. McCarthy,Cristen J. Willer,Kari Stefansson,Ingrid B. Borecki,Dajiang J. Liu,Kari E. North,Nancy L. Heard-Costa,Tune H. Pers,Cecilia M. Lindgren,Claus Oxvig,Zoltán Kutalik,Fernando Rivadeneira,Ruth J. F. Loos,Timothy M. Frayling,Joel N. Hirschhorn,Panos Deloukas,Guillaume Lettre +370 more
- 01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that sufficiently large sample sizes can uncover rare and low-frequency variants of moderate-to-large effect associated with polygenic human phenotypes, and that these variants implicate relevant genes and pathways.
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