A common variant of HMGA2 is associated with adult and childhood height in the general population.

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Published in Nat Genet on September 02, 2007

Authors

Michael N Weedon1, Guillaume Lettre, Rachel M Freathy, Cecilia M Lindgren, Benjamin F Voight, John R B Perry, Katherine S Elliott, Rachel Hackett, Candace Guiducci, Beverley Shields, Eleftheria Zeggini, Hana Lango, Valeriya Lyssenko, Nicholas J Timpson, Noel P Burtt, Nigel W Rayner, Richa Saxena, Kristin Ardlie, Jonathan H Tobias, Andrew R Ness, Susan M Ring, Colin N A Palmer, Andrew D Morris, Leena Peltonen, Veikko Salomaa, Diabetes Genetics Initiative, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium, George Davey Smith, Leif C Groop, Andrew T Hattersley, Mark I McCarthy, Joel N Hirschhorn, Timothy M Frayling

Author Affiliations

1: Genetics of Complex Traits, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Peninsula Medical School, Magdalen Road, Exeter EX1 2LU, UK.

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