Genome-wide association studies of human growth traits.

Abstract excerpt

Despite the high heritability of human growth traits, until recently little was known about the underlying genes and genetic variants which explain normal variation of growth. In the past few years, genome-wide association studies have successfully identified hundreds of genetic variants that are associated with human growth traits. These variants have implicated many novel genes in the regulation of birthweight...

Topics

• Birth Weight
• Body Height
• Genetic Loci
• Genome-Wide Association Study
• Humans
• Meta-Analysis as Topic
• Phenotype
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide