Genome-wide association approaches for identifying loci for human height genes.

Abstract excerpt

Human height is a very heritable trait as most of other human anthropometric traits. Genome-wide association studies have thus far identified about 200 genes associated with height with a genome-wide significance. Very large meta-analyses were needed to achieve this. These 200 height genes are involved in various biologically plausible pathways for growth, but yet explain only 10% of the variance in height. So it...

Topics

• Body Height
• Gene Frequency
• Genome, Human
• Genome-Wide Association Study
• Humans
• Meta-Analysis as Topic
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide