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    Transferability and Fine-Mapping of Genome-Wide Associated Loci for Adult Height across Human Populations

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    2009-12-22
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    10.1371/journal.pone.0008398
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    Shriner, Daniel
    Adeyemo, Adebowale
    Gerry, Norman P.
    Herbert, Alan
    Chen, Guanjie
    Doumatey, Ayo
    Huang, Hanxia
    Zhou, Jie
    Christman, Michael F.
    Rotimi, Charles N.
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    Shriner, Daniel, Adebowale Adeyemo, Norman P. Gerry, Alan Herbert, Guanjie Chen, Ayo Doumatey, Hanxia Huang, Jie Zhou, Michael F. Christman, Charles N. Rotimi. "Transferability and Fine-Mapping of Genome-Wide Associated Loci for Adult Height across Human Populations" PLoS ONE 4(12): e8398. (2009)
    Abstract
    Human height is the prototypical polygenic quantitative trait. Recently, several genetic variants influencing adult height were identified, primarily in individuals of East Asian (Chinese Han or Korean) or European ancestry. Here, we examined 152 genetic variants representing 107 independent loci previously associated with adult height for transferability in a well-powered sample of 1,016 unrelated African Americans. When we tested just the reported variants originally identified as associated with adult height in individuals of East Asian or European ancestry, only 8.3% of these loci transferred (p-values=0.05 under an additive genetic model with directionally consistent effects) to our African American sample. However, when we comprehensively evaluated all HapMap variants in linkage disequilibrium (r2=0.3) with the reported variants, the transferability rate increased to 54.1%. The transferability rate was 70.8% for associations originally reported as genome-wide significant and 38.0% for associations originally reported as suggestive. An additional 23 loci were significantly associated but failed to transfer because of directionally inconsistent effects. Six loci were associated with adult height in all three groups. Using differences in linkage disequilibrium patterns between HapMap CEU or CHB reference data and our African American sample, we fine-mapped these six loci, improving both the localization and the annotation of these transferable associations.
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