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SUBMITTER: Lin BD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4584317 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Bochao Danae BD Mbarek Hamdi H Willemsen Gonneke G Dolan Conor V CV Fedko Iryna O IO Abdellaoui Abdel A de Geus Eco J EJ Boomsma Dorret I DI Hottenga Jouke-Jan JJ
Genes 20150713 3
Hair color is one of the most visible and heritable traits in humans. Here, we estimated heritability by structural equation modeling (N = 20,142), and performed a genome wide association (GWA) analysis (N = 7091) and a GCTA study (N = 3340) on hair color within a large cohort of twins, their parents and siblings from the Netherlands Twin Register (NTR). Self-reported hair color was analyzed as five binary phenotypes, namely "blond versus non-blond", "red versus non-red", "brown versus non-brown ...[more]