Common variants at 12q15 and 12q24 are associated with infant head circumference

• Main Authors: H. Rob Taal, Beate St Pourcain, Elisabeth Thiering, Shikta Das, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Nicole M. Warrington, Marika Kaakinen, Eskil Kreiner-Møller, Jonathan P. Bradfield, Rachel M. Freathy, Frank Geller, Mònica Guxens, Diana L. Cousminer, Marjan Kerkhof, Nicholas J. Timpson, M. Arfan Ikram, Lawrence J. Beilin, Klaus Bønnelykke, Jessica L. Buxton, Pimphen Charoen, Bo Lund Krogsgaard Chawes, Johan Eriksson, David M. Evans, Albert Hofman, John P. Kemp, Cecilia E. Kim, Norman Klopp, Jari Lahti, Stephen J. Lye, George Mcmahon, Frank D. Mentch, Martina Müller-Nurasyid, Paul F. O'reilly, Inga Prokopenko, Fernando Rivadeneira, Eric A.P. Steegers, Jordi Sunyer, Carla Tiesler, Hanieh Yaghootkar, Myriam Fornage, Albert V. Smith, Sudha Seshadri, Reinhold Schmidt, Stéphanie Debette, Henri A. Vrooman, Sigurdur Sigurdsson, Stefan Ropele, Laura H. Coker, W. T. Longstreth, Wiro J. Niessen, Anita L. Destefano, Alexa Beiser, Alex P. Zijdenbos
• Other Authors: Erasmus University Medical Center
• Format: Article
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
• Online Access: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/123456789/13752
• Institution: Mahidol University

To identify genetic variants associated with head circumference in infancy, we performed a meta-analysis of seven genome-wide association studies (GWAS) (N = 10,768 individuals of European ancestry enrolled in pregnancy and/or birth cohorts) and followed up three lead signals in six replication stud...