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SUBMITTER: Yang TL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2972475 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Tie-Lin TL Guo Yan Y Zhang Li-Shu LS Tian Qing Q Yan Han H Guo Yan-Fang YF Deng Hong-Wen HW
Annals of human genetics 20091120 1
Recent genome-wide association studies have identified a novel polymorphism, rs1042725, in the HMGA2 gene for human adult height, a highly heritable complex trait. Replications in independent populations are needed to evaluate a positive finding and determine its generality. Thus, we performed a replication study to examine the associations between polymorphisms in HMGA2 and adult height in two US Caucasian populations (an unrelated sample of 998 subjects and a family-based sample of 8385 subjec ...[more]