Genome-wide association study to identify common variants associated with brachial circumference: a meta-analysis of 14 cohorts.

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Published in PLoS One on March 29, 2012

Authors

Vesna Boraska1, Aaron Day-Williams, Christopher S Franklin, Katherine S Elliott, Kalliope Panoutsopoulou, Ioanna Tachmazidou, Eva Albrecht, Stefania Bandinelli, Lawrence J Beilin, Murielle Bochud, Gemma Cadby, Florian Ernst, David M Evans, Caroline Hayward, Andrew A Hicks, Jennifer Huffman, Cornelia Huth, Alan L James, Norman Klopp, Ivana Kolcic, Zoltán Kutalik, Debbie A Lawlor, Arthur W Musk, Marina Pehlic, Craig E Pennell, John R B Perry, Annette Peters, Ozren Polasek, Beate St Pourcain, Susan M Ring, Erika Salvi, Sabine Schipf, Jan A Staessen, Alexander Teumer, Nicholas Timpson, Veronique Vitart, Nicole M Warrington, Hanieh Yaghootkar, Tatijana Zemunik, Lina Zgaga, Ping An, Verneri Anttila, Ingrid B Borecki, Jostein Holmen, Ioanna Ntalla, Aarno Palotie, Kirsi H Pietiläinen, Juho Wedenoja, Bendik S Winsvold, George V Dedoussis, Jaakko Kaprio, Michael A Province, John-Anker Zwart, Michel Burnier, Harry Campbell, Daniele Cusi, George Davey Smith, Timothy M Frayling, Christian Gieger, Lyle J Palmer, Peter P Pramstaller, Igor Rudan, Henry Völzke, H-Erich Wichmann, Alan F Wright, Eleftheria Zeggini

Author Affiliations

1: Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, United Kingdom. vb2@sanger.ac.uk

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