Teresa Ferreira

ORCID: 0000-0002-4333-1390
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Research Areas
  • Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
  • Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
  • Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
  • Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
  • Cardiovascular Function and Risk Factors
  • Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders
  • Cardiomyopathy and Myosin Studies
  • Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
  • Iron Metabolism and Disorders
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
  • Cardiovascular Disease and Adiposity
  • BRCA gene mutations in cancer
  • Adipose Tissue and Metabolism
  • RNA modifications and cancer
  • Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research
  • DNA Repair Mechanisms
  • Growth Hormone and Insulin-like Growth Factors
  • Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
  • Liver Disease Diagnosis and Treatment
  • Ovarian function and disorders
  • Neuroendocrine Tumor Research Advances
  • Pancreatic function and diabetes
  • Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics

University of Oxford
2014-2024

Hospital Prof. Dr. Fernando Fonseca
2014-2024

Instituto Português de Oncologia Francisco Gentil
2002-2024

Hospital de Clínicas
2024

Open Data Institute
2021-2024

Goa Medical College
2020-2023

Centro Hospitalar do Baixo Vouga
2023

Centre for Human Genetics
2011-2022

Weatherford College
2022

Banaras Hindu University
2022

Cristen J. Willer Ellen M. Schmidt Sebanti Sengupta Gina M. Peloso Stefan Gustafsson and 95 more Stavroula Kanoni Andrea Ganna Ming‐Huei Chen Martin L. Buchkovich Samia Mora J. Beckmann Jennifer L. Bragg‐Gresham Hsing‐Yi Chang Ayşe Demirkan Heleen M. den Hertog Ron Do Louise A. Donnelly Georg Ehret Tõnu Esko Mary F. Feitosa Teresa Ferreira Krista Fischer Pierre Fontanillas Ross M. Fraser Daniel F. Freitag Deepti Gurdasani Kauko Heikkilä Elina Hyppönen Aaron Isaacs Anne Jackson Åsa Johansson Toby Johnson Marika Kaakinen Johannes Kettunen Marcus E. Kleber Xiaohui Li Jian’an Luan Leo‐Pekka Lyytikäinen Patrik K. E. Magnusson Massimo Mangino Evelin Mihailov May E. Montasser Martina Müller‐Nurasyid Ilja M. Nolte Jeffrey R. O’Connell Cameron D. Palmer Markus Perola Ann-Kristin Petersen Serena Sanna Richa Saxena Susan K. Service Sonia Shah Dmitry Shungin Carlo Sidore Ci Song Rona J. Strawbridge Ida Surakka Toshiko Tanaka Tanya M. Teslovich Guðmar Þorleifsson Evita G. van den Herik Benjamin F. Voight Kelly A. Volcik Lindsay L. Waite Andrew Wong Ying Wu Weihua Zhang Devin Absher Gershim Asiki Inês Barroso Latonya Been Jennifer L. Bolton Lori L. Bonnycastle Paolo Brambilla Mary Susan Burnett Giancarlo Cesana Maria Dimitriou Alex S. F. Doney Angela Döring Paul Elliott Stephen E. Epstein Guðmundur I. Eyjólfsson Bruna Gigante Mark O. Goodarzi Harald Grallert Martha L. Gravito Christopher J. Groves Göran Hallmans Anna-Liisa Hartikainen Caroline Hayward Dena Hernández Andrew A. Hicks Hilma Hólm Yi-Jen Hung Thomas Illig Michelle R. Jones Pontiano Kaleebu John J.P. Kastelein Kay‐Tee Khaw Eric H. Kim

10.1038/ng.2797 article EN Nature Genetics 2013-10-06
Elizabeth K. Speliotes Cristen J. Willer Sonja I. Berndt Keri L. Monda Guðmar Þorleifsson and 95 more Anne Jackson Hana Lango Allen Cecilia M. Lindgren Jian’an Luan Reedik Mägi Joshua C. Randall Sailaja Vedantam Thomas W. Winkler Lu Qi Tsegaselassie Workalemahu Iris M. Heid Valgerður Steinthórsdóttir Heather M. Stringham Michael N. Weedon Eleanor Wheeler Andrew R. Wood Teresa Ferreira Robert J. Weyant Ayellet V. Segrè Karol Estrada Liming Liang James Nemesh Ju-Hyun Park Stefan Gustafsson Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen Jian Yang Nabila Bouatia‐Naji Tõnu Esko Mary F. Feitosa Zoltán Kutalik Massimo Mangino Soumya Raychaudhuri André Scherag Albert V. Smith Ryan Welch Wei Zhao Katja K.H. Aben Devin M. Absher Najaf Amin Anna Dixon Eva Fisher Nicole L. Glazer Michael E. Goddard Nancy L. Heard‐Costa Volker Hoesel Jouke‐Jan Hottenga Åsa Johansson Toby Johnson Shamika Ketkar Claudia Lamina Shengxu Li Miriam F. Moffatt Richard H. Myers Narisu Narisu John R. B. Perry Marjolein J. Peters Michael Preuß Samuli Ripatti Fernando Rivadeneira Camilla H. Sandholt Laura J. Scott Nicholas J. Timpson Jonathan P. Tyrer S. van Wingerden Richard M. Watanabe Charles C. White Fredrik Wiklund Cristina Barlassina Daniel I. Chasman Matthew N. Cooper John‐Olov Jansson Robert Lawrence Niina Pellikka Inga Prokopenko Jianxin Shi Elisabeth Thiering Helene Alavere Maria Teresa Sciarrone Alibrandi Peter Almgren Alice M. Arnold Thor Aspelund Larry D. Atwood Beverley Balkau Anthony J. Balmforth Amanda J. Bennett Yoav Ben‐Shlomo Richard N. Bergman Sven Bergmann Heike Biebermann Alexandra I. F. Blakemore Tanja Boes Lori L. Bonnycastle Stefan R. Bornstein Matthew A. Brown Thomas A. Buchanan

10.1038/ng.686 article EN Nature Genetics 2010-10-10
Hana Lango Allen Karol Estrada Guillaume Lettre Sonja I. Berndt Michael N. Weedon and 95 more Fernando Rivadeneira Cristen J. Willer Anne Jackson Sailaja Vedantam Soumya Raychaudhuri Teresa Ferreira Andrew R. Wood Robert J. Weyant Ayellet V. Segrè Elizabeth K. Speliotes Eleanor Wheeler Nicole Soranzo Ju‐Hyun Park Jian Yang Daníel F. Guðbjartsson Nancy L. Heard‐Costa Joshua C. Randall Lu Qi Albert V. Smith Reedik Mägi Tomi Pastinen Liming Liang Iris M. Heid Jian’an Luan Guðmar Þorleifsson Thomas W. Winkler Michael E. Goddard Ken Sin Lo Cameron D. Palmer Tsegaselassie Workalemahu Yurii S. Aulchenko Åsa Johansson M. Carola Zillikens Mary F. Feitosa Tõnu Esko Toby Johnson Shamika Ketkar Peter Kraft Massimo Mangino Inga Prokopenko Devin Absher Eva Albrecht Florian Ernst Nicole L. Glazer Caroline Hayward Jouke‐Jan Hottenga Kevin B. Jacobs Joshua W. Knowles Zoltán Kutalik Keri L. Monda Ozren Polašek Michael Preuß Nigel W. Rayner Neil R. Robertson Valgerður Steinthórsdóttir Jonathan P. Tyrer Benjamin F. Voight Fredrik Wiklund Jianfeng Xu Wei Zhao Dale R. Nyholt Niina Pellikka Markus Perola John R. B. Perry Ida Surakka Mari-Liis Tammesoo Elizabeth L. Altmaier Najaf Amin Thor Aspelund Tushar Bhangale Gabrielle Boucher Daniel I. Chasman Constance Chen Lachlan Coin Matthew N. Cooper Anna Dixon Quince Gibson Elin Grundberg Ke Hao Juhani Junttila Lee M. Kaplan Johannes Kettunen Inke R. König Tony Kwan Robert Lawrence Douglas F. Levinson Mattias Lorentzon Barbara McKnight Andrew P. Morris Martina Müller‐Nurasyid Julius S. Ngwa Shaun Purcell Suzanne Rafelt Rany M. Salem Erika Salvi

10.1038/nature09410 article EN Nature 2010-09-29
Benjamin F. Voight Laura J. Scott Valgerður Steinthórsdóttir Andrew P. Morris Christian Dina and 95 more Ryan Welch Eleftheria Zeggini Cornelia Huth Yurii S. Aulchenko Guðmar Þorleifsson Laura McCulloch Teresa Ferreira Harald Grallert Najaf Amin Guanming Wu Cristen J. Willer Soumya Raychaudhuri Steve McCarroll Claudia Langenberg Oliver Hofmann Josée Dupuis Lu Qi Ayellet V. Segrè Mandy van Hoek Pau Navarro Kristin Ardlie Beverley Balkau Rafn Benediktsson Amanda J. Bennett Roza Blagieva Eric Boerwinkle Lori L. Bonnycastle Kristina Bengtsson Boström Bert Bravenboer Suzannah Bumpstead Noisël P Burtt G. Charpentier Peter S. Chines Marilyn C. Cornelis David Couper Gabe Crawford Alex S. F. Doney Katherine S. Elliott Amanda L. Elliott Michael R. Erdos Caroline S. Fox Christopher S. Franklin Martha Ganser Christian Gieger Niels Grarup Todd J. Green Simon J. Griffin Christopher J. Groves Candace Guiducci Samy Hadjadj Neelam Hassanali Christian Herder Bo Isomaa Anne Jackson Paul R V Johnson Torben Jørgensen Wen H. Kao Norman Klopp Augustine Kong Peter Kraft Johanna Kuusisto Torsten Lauritzen Man Li Aloysius G. Lieverse Cecilia M. Lindgren Valeriya Lyssenko Michel Marre Thomas Meitinger Kristian Midthjell Mario A. Morken Narisu Narisu Peter M. Nilsson Katharine R. Owen Felicity Payne John R. B. Perry Ann-Kristin Petersen Carl G. P. Platou Christine Proença Inga Prokopenko Wolfgang Rathmann Nigel W. Rayner Neil R. Robertson Ghislain Rocheleau Michael Roden Michael Sampson Richa Saxena Beverley M. Shields Peter Shrader Gunnar Sigurðsson Thomas Sparsø Klaus Straßburger Heather M. Stringham Qi Sun Amy J. Swift Barbara Thorand

10.1038/ng.609 article EN Nature Genetics 2010-06-27
Christian Fuchsberger Jason Flannick Tanya M. Teslovich Anubha Mahajan Vineeta Agarwala and 95 more Kyle J. Gaulton Clement Ma Pierre Fontanillas Loukas Moutsianas Davis J. McCarthy Manuel A. Rivas John R. B. Perry Xueling Sim Thomas W. Blackwell Neil R. Robertson Nigel W. Rayner Pablo Cingolani Adam E. Locke Juan Fernández Tajes Heather M. Highland Josée Dupuis Peter S. Chines Cecilia M. Lindgren Christopher Hartl Anne Jackson Han Chen Jeroen R. Huyghe Martijn van de Bunt Richard D. Pearson Ashish Kumar Martina Müller‐Nurasyid Niels Grarup Heather M. Stringham Eric R. Gamazon Jaehoon Lee Yuhui Chen Robert A. Scott Jennifer E. Below Peng Chen Jinyan Huang Min Jin Go Michael L. Stitzel Dorota Pasko Stephen C. J. Parker Tibor V. Varga Todd Green Nicola L. Beer Aaron G. Day‐Williams Teresa Ferreira Tasha E. Fingerlin Momoko Horikoshi Cheng Hu Iksoo Huh M. Kamran Ikram Bong-Jo Kim Yongkang Kim Young Jin Kim Min‐Seok Kwon Juyoung Lee Selyeong Lee Keng‐Han Lin Taylor J. Maxwell Yoshihiko Nagai Xu Wang Ryan Welch Joon Yoon Weihua Zhang Nir Barzilai Benjamin F. Voight Bok‐Ghee Han Christopher P. Jenkinson Teemu Kuulasmaa Johanna Kuusisto Alisa K. Manning Maggie C. Y. Ng Colin N. A. Palmer Beverley Balkau Alena Stančáková Hanna E. Abboud Heiner Boeing Vilmantas Giedraitis Dorairaj Prabhakaran Omri Gottesman Berthold Lausen Jason Carey Phoenix Kwan George Grant Joshua D. Smith Benjamin M. Neale Shaun Purcell Adam S. Butterworth Joanna M. M. Howson Heung Man Lee Yingchang Lu Soo‐Heon Kwak Wei Zhao John Danesh Vincent K. Lam Kyong Soo Park Danish Saleheen

10.1038/nature18642 article EN Nature 2016-07-11
Iris M. Heid Anne Jackson Joshua C. Randall Thomas W. Winkler Lu Qi and 95 more Valgerður Steinthórsdóttir Guðmar Þorleifsson M. Carola Zillikens Elizabeth K. Speliotes Reedik Mägi Tsegaselassie Workalemahu Charles C. White Nabila Bouatia‐Naji Tamara B. Harris Sonja I. Berndt Erik Ingelsson Cristen J. Willer Michael N. Weedon Jian’an Luan Sailaja Vedantam Tõnu Esko Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen Zoltán Kutalik Shengxu Li Keri L. Monda Anna Dixon Chris Holmes Lee M. Kaplan Liming Liang Josine L. Min Miriam F. Moffatt Cliona Molony Geoffrey C. Nicholson Eric E. Schadt Krina T. Zondervan Mary F. Feitosa Teresa Ferreira Hana Lango Allen Robert J. Weyant Eleanor Wheeler Andrew R. Wood Karol Estrada Michael E. Goddard Guillaume Lettre Massimo Mangino Dale R. Nyholt Shaun Purcell Albert V. Smith Peter M. Visscher Jian Yang Steven A. McCarroll James Nemesh Benjamin F. Voight Devin Absher Najaf Amin Thor Aspelund Lachlan Coin Nicole L. Glazer Caroline Hayward Nancy L. Heard‐Costa Jouke‐Jan Hottenga Åsa Johansson Toby Johnson Marika Kaakinen Karen Kapur Shamika Ketkar Joshua W. Knowles Peter Kraft Aldi T. Kraja Claudia Lamina Michael F. Leitzmann Barbara McKnight Andrew P. Morris Ken K. Ong John R. B. Perry Marjolein J. Peters Ozren Polašek Inga Prokopenko Nigel W. Rayner Samuli Ripatti Fernando Rivadeneira Neil R. Robertson Serena Sanna Ulla Sovio Ida Surakka Alexander Teumer S. van Wingerden Véronique Vitart Wei Zhao Christine Cavalcanti-Proença Peter S. Chines Eva Fisher Jennifer R. Kulzer Cécile Lecœur Narisu Narisu Camilla H. Sandholt Laura J. Scott Kaisa Silander Klaus Stark Mari‐Liis Tammesoo

10.1038/ng.685 article EN Nature Genetics 2010-10-10
Ron Do Cristen J. Willer Ellen M. Schmidt Sebanti Sengupta Chi Gao and 95 more Gina M. Peloso Stefan Gustafsson Stavroula Kanoni Andrea Ganna Jin Chen Martin L. Buchkovich Samia Mora J. Beckmann Jennifer L. Bragg‐Gresham Hsing‐Yi Chang Ayşe Demirkan Heleen M. den Hertog Louise A. Donnelly Georg Ehret Tõnu Esko Mary F. Feitosa Teresa Ferreira Krista Fischer Pierre Fontanillas Ross M. Fraser Daniel F. Freitag Deepti Gurdasani Kauko Heikkilä Elina Hyppönen Aaron Isaacs Anne Jackson Åsa Johansson Toby Johnson Marika Kaakinen Johannes Kettunen Marcus E. Kleber Xiaohui Li Jian’an Luan Leo‐Pekka Lyytikäinen Patrik K. E. Magnusson Massimo Mangino Evelin Mihailov May E. Montasser Martina Müller‐Nurasyid Ilja M. Nolte Jeffrey R. O’Connell Colin N. A. Palmer Markus Perola Ann-Kristin Petersen Serena Sanna Richa Saxena Susan K. Service Sonia Shah Dmitry Shungin Carlo Sidore Ci Song Rona J. Strawbridge Ida Surakka Toshiko Tanaka Tanya M. Teslovich Guðmar Þorleifsson Evita G. van den Herik Benjamin F. Voight Kelly A. Volcik Lindsay L. Waite Andrew Wong Ying Wu Weihua Zhang Devin Absher Gershim Asiki Inês Barroso Latonya Been Jennifer L. Bolton Lori L. Bonnycastle Paolo Brambilla Mary Susan Burnett Giancarlo Cesana Maria Dimitriou Alex S. F. Doney Angela Döring Paul Elliott Stephen E. Epstein Guðmundur I. Eyjólfsson Bruna Gigante Mark O. Goodarzi Harald Grallert Martha L. Gravito Christopher J. Groves Göran Hallmans Anna-Liisa Hartikainen Caroline Hayward Dena Hernandez Andrew A. Hicks Hilma Hólm Yi-Jen Hung Thomas Illig Michelle R. Jones Pontiano Kaleebu John J.P. Kastelein Kay‐Tee Khaw

10.1038/ng.2795 article EN Nature Genetics 2013-10-06
Robert A. Scott Laura J. Scott Reedik Mägi Letizia Marullo Kyle J. Gaulton and 95 more Marika Kaakinen Natalia Pervjakova Tune H. Pers Andrew D. Johnson John D. Eicher Anne Jackson Teresa Ferreira Yeji Lee Clement Ma Valgerður Steinthórsdóttir Guðmar Þorleifsson Lu Qi Natalie R. van Zuydam Anubha Mahajan Han Chen Peter Almgren Benjamin F. Voight Harald Grallert Martina Müller‐Nurasyid Janina S. Ried Nigel W. Rayner Neil Robertson Lennart C. Karssen Jin‐Moo Lee Sara M. Willems Christian Fuchsberger Phoenix Kwan Tanya M. Teslovich Pritam Chanda Man Li Yingchang Lu Christian Dina Dorothée Thuillier Loïc Yengo Longda Jiang Thomas Sparsø Hans A. Kestler Himanshu Chheda Lewin Eisele Stefan Gustafsson Mattias Frånberg Rona J. Strawbridge Rafn Benediktsson Ástráður B. Hreiðarsson Augustine Kong Gunnar Sigurðsson Nicola D. Kerrison Jian’an Luan Liming Liang Thomas Meitinger Michael Roden Barbara Thorand Tõnu Esko Evelin Mihailov Caroline S. Fox Yongmei Liu Denis Rybin Bo Isomaa Valeriya Lyssenko Jaakko Tuomilehto David Couper James S. Pankow Niels Grarup Henri Theil Marit E. Jørgensen Torben Jørgensen Allan Linneberg Marilyn C. Cornelis Rob M. van Dam Sarah Hunt Peter Kraft Qi Sun Sarah Edkins Katharine R. Owen John R. B. Perry Andrew R. Wood Eleftheria Zeggini Juan Tajes-Fernandes Gonçalo R. Abecasis Lori L. Bonnycastle Peter S. Chines Heather M. Stringham Heikki A. Koistinen Leena Kinnunen Bengt Sennblad Hae‐Won Uh Markus M. Nöthen Sonali Pechlivanis Damiano Baldassarre Karl Gertow Steve E. Humphries Elena Tremoli Norman Klopp Julia Meyer Gerald Steinbach

To characterize type 2 diabetes (T2D)-associated variation across the allele frequency spectrum, we conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association data from 26,676 T2D case and 132,532 control subjects European ancestry after imputation using 1000 Genomes multiethnic reference panel. Promising signals were followed up in additional sets (of 14,545 or 7,397 38,994 71,604 subjects). We identified 13 novel T2D-associated loci (P < 5 × 10-8), including variants near GLP2R, GIP, HLA-DQA1...

10.2337/db16-1253 article EN Diabetes 2017-05-31
Sonja I. Berndt Stefan Gustafsson Reedik Mägi Andrea Ganna Eleanor Wheeler and 95 more Mary F. Feitosa Anne E. Justice Keri L. Monda Damien C. Croteau‐Chonka Felix R. Day Tõnu Esko Tove Fall Teresa Ferreira Davide Gentilini Anne Jackson Jian’an Luan Joshua C. Randall Sailaja Vedantam Cristen J. Willer Thomas W. Winkler Andrew R. Wood Tsegaselassie Workalemahu Yi‐Juan Hu Sang Lee Liming Liang Dan-Yu Lin Josine L. Min Benjamin M. Neale Guðmar Þorleifsson Jian Yang Eva Albrecht Najaf Amin Jennifer L. Bragg‐Gresham Gemma Cadby Martin den Heijer Niina Eklund Krista Fischer Anuj Goel Jouke‐Jan Hottenga Jennifer E. Huffman Ivonne Jarick Åsa Johansson Toby Johnson Stavroula Kanoni Marcus E. Kleber Inke R. König Kati Kristiansson Zoltán Kutalik Claudia Lamina Cécile Lecœur Li Guo Massimo Mangino Wendy L. McArdle Carolina Medina‐Gómez Martina Müller‐Nurasyid Julius S. Ngwa Ilja M. Nolte Lavinia Paternoster Sonali Pechlivanis Markus Perola Marjolein J. Peters Michael Preuß Lynda M. Rose Jianxin Shi Dmitry Shungin Albert V. Smith Rona J. Strawbridge Ida Surakka Alexander Teumer Mieke D. Trip Jonathan P. Tyrer Jana V. van Vliet‐Ostaptchouk Liesbeth Vandenput Lindsay L. Waite Wei Zhao Devin Absher Folkert W. Asselbergs Mustafa Atalay Antony Attwood Anthony J. Balmforth Hanneke Basart John Beilby Lori L. Bonnycastle Paolo Brambilla Marcel Bruinenberg Harry Campbell Daniel I. Chasman Peter S. Chines Francis S. Collins John Connell William Cookson Ulf dé Fairé Femmie de Vegt Mariano Dei Maria Dimitriou Sarah Edkins Karol Estrada David M. Evans Martin Farrall Maurizio Ferrario

10.1038/ng.2606 article EN Nature Genetics 2013-04-07
John R. B. Perry Felix R. Day Cathy E. Elks Patrick Sulem Deborah J. Thompson and 95 more Teresa Ferreira Chunyan He Daniel I. Chasman Tõnu Esko Guðmar Þorleifsson Eva Albrecht Wei Ang Tanguy Corre Diana L. Cousminer Bjarke Feenstra Nora Franceschini Andrea Ganna Andrew D. Johnson Sanela Kjellqvist Kathryn L. Lunetta George McMahon Ilja M. Nolte Lavinia Paternoster Eleonora Porcu Albert V. Smith Lisette Stolk Alexander Teumer Natalia Tšernikova Emmi Tikkanen Sheila Ulivi Erin K. Wagner Najaf Amin Laura J. Bierut Enda M. Byrne Jouke‐Jan Hottenga Daniel L. Koller Massimo Mangino Tune H. Pers Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong Jing Hua Zhao Irene L. Andrulis Hoda Anton‐Culver Femke Atsma Stefania Bandinelli Matthias W. Beckmann Javier Benı́tez Carl Blomqvist Stig E. Bojesen Manjeet K. Bolla Bernardo Bonanni Hiltrud Brauch Hermann Brenner Julie E. Buring Jenny Chang‐Claude Stephen J. Chanock Jinhui Chen Georgia Chenevix‐Trench J. Margriet Collée Fergus J. Couch David Couper Andrea D. Coviello Angela Cox Kamila Czene Pio D’Adamo George Davey Smith Immaculata De Vivo Ellen W. Demerath Joe Dennis Peter Devilee Aida Karina Dieffenbach Alison M. Dunning Guðný Eiríksdóttir Johan G. Eriksson Peter A. Fasching Luigi Ferrucci Dieter Flesch‐Janys Henrik Flyger Tatiana Foroud Lude Franke Melissa E. Garcia Montserrat García‐Closas Frank Geller Eco J. C. de Geus Graham G. Giles Daníel F. Guðbjartsson Vilmundur Guðnason Pascal Guénel Suiqun Guo Per Hall Ute Hamann Robin Haring Catharina A. Hartman Andrew C. Heath Albert Hofman Maartje J. Hooning John L. Hopper Frank B. Hu David J. Hunter David Karasik Douglas P. Kiel

10.1038/nature13545 article EN Nature 2014-07-23
Paolo Zanoni Sumeet A. Khetarpal Daniel B. Larach William Hancock‐Cerutti John S. Millar and 95 more Marina Cuchel Stephanie DerOhannessian Anatol Kontush Praveen Surendran Danish Saleheen Stella Trompet J. Wouter Jukema Anton de Craen Panos Deloukas Naveed Sattar Ian Ford Chris J. Packard Abdullah Al Shafi Majumder Dewan S Alam Emanuele Di Angelantonio Gonçalo R. Abecasis Rajiv Chowdhury Jeanette Erdmann Børge G. Nordestgaard Sune F. Nielsen Anne Tybjærg‐Hansen Ruth Frikke‐Schmidt Kari Kuulasmaa Dajiang J. Liu Markus Perola Stefan Blankenberg Veikko Salomaa Satu Männistö Philippe Amouyel Dominique Arveiler Jean Ferrières Martina Müller‐Nurasyid Maurizio Ferrario Frank Kee Cristen J. Willer Nilesh J. Samani Heribert Schunkert Adam S. Butterworth Joanna M. M. Howson Gina M. Peloso Nathan O. Stitziel John Danesh Sekar Kathiresan Daniel J. Rader Sarah Watson Ellen M. Schmidt Sebanti Sengupta Stefan Gustafsson Stavroula Kanoni Andrea Ganna Ming‐Huei Chen Martin L. Buchkovich Samia Mora J. Beckmann Jennifer L. Bragg‐Gresham Hsing‐Yi Chang Ayşe Demirkan Heleen M. den Hertog Ron Do Louise A. Donnelly Georg Ehret Tõnu Esko Mary F. Feitosa Teresa Ferreira Krista Fischer Pierre Fontanillas Ross M. Fraser Daniel F. Freitag Deepti Gurdasani Kauko Heikkilä Elina Hyppönen Aaron Isaacs Anne Jackson Åsa Johansson Toby Johnson Marika Kaakinen Johannes Kettunen Marcus E. Kleber Xiaohui Li Jian’an Luan Leo‐Pekka Lyytikäinen Patrik K. E. Magnusson Massimo Mangino Evelin Mihailov May E. Montasser Ilja M. Nolte Jeffrey R. O’Connell Colin N. A. Palmer Ann-Kristin Petersen Serena Sanna Richa Saxena Susan K. Service Sonia Shah Dmitry Shungin Carlo Sidore

A scavenger that protects the heart Coronary disease is a tale of two forms plasma cholesterol. In contrast to well-established effects “bad” cholesterol (LDL-C), role “good” (HDL-C) mysterious. Elevated HDL-C correlates with lower risk disease, yet drugs raise levels do not reduce risk. Zanoni et al. found some people exceptionally high carry rare sequence variant in gene encoding major receptor, receptor BI. This destroys receptor's ability take up HDL-C. Interestingly, this have higher...

10.1126/science.aad3517 article EN Science 2016-03-10
Loïc Yengo Sailaja Vedantam Eirini Marouli Julia Sidorenko Eric Bartell and 95 more Saori Sakaue Marielisa Graff Anders U. Eliasen Yunxuan Jiang Sridharan Raghavan Jenkai Miao Joshua Arias Sarah E. Graham Ronen E. Mukamel Cassandra N. Spracklen Xianyong Yin Shyh‐Huei Chen Teresa Ferreira Heather H Highland Yingjie Ji Tugce Karaderi Kuang Lin Kreete Lüll Deborah E. Malden Carolina Medina‐Gómez Moara Machado Amy Moore Sina Rüeger Xueling Sim Scott Vrieze Tarunveer S. Ahluwalia Masato Akiyama Matthew Allison Marcus Alvarez Mette K. Andersen Alireza Ani Vivek Appadurai Liubov Arbeeva Seema Bhaskar Lawrence F. Bielak Sailalitha Bollepalli Lori L. Bonnycastle Jette Bork‐Jensen Jonathan P. Bradfield Yuki Bradford Peter S. Braund Jennifer A. Brody Kristoffer Sølvsten Burgdorf Brian E. Cade Hui Cai Qiuyin Cai Archie Campbell Marisa Cañadas‐Garre Eulalia Catamo Jin Fang Chai Xiaoran Chai Li-Ching Chang Yi–Cheng Chang Chien-Hsiun Chen Alessandra Chesi Seung Hoan Choi Ren‐Hua Chung Massimiliano Cocca Maria Pina Concas Christian Couture Gabriel Cuéllar-Partida Rebecca Danning E. Warwick Daw Frauke Degenhard Graciela E. Delgado Alessandro Delitala Ayşe Demirkan Xuan Deng Poornima Devineni Alexander Dietl Maria Dimitriou Latchezar Dimitrov Rajkumar Dorajoo Arif B. Ekici Jorgen Engmann Zammy Fairhurst-Hunter Aliki‐Eleni Farmaki Jessica D. Faul Juan-Carlos Fernandez-Lopez Lukas Forer Margherita Francescatto Sandra Freitag‐Wolf Christian Fuchsberger Tessel E. Galesloot Yan Gao Zishan Gao Frank Geller Olga Giannakopoulou Franco Giulianini Anette P. Gjesing Anuj Goel Scott D. Gordon Mathias Gorski Jakob Grove Xiuqing Guo

Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40-50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specific variants and associated regions requires huge sample sizes

10.1038/s41586-022-05275-y article EN cc-by Nature 2022-10-12
Joshua C. Randall Thomas W. Winkler Zoltán Kutalik Sonja I. Berndt Anne Jackson and 95 more Keri L. Monda Tuomas O. Kilpeläinen Tõnu Esko Reedik Mägi Shengxu Li Tsegaselassie Workalemahu Mary F. Feitosa Damien C. Croteau‐Chonka Felix R. Day Tove Fall Teresa Ferreira Stefan Gustafsson Adam E. Locke Iain Mathieson André Scherag Sailaja Vedantam Andrew R. Wood Liming Liang Valgerður Steinthórsdóttir Guðmar Þorleifsson Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis Antigone S. Dimas Fredrik Karpe Josine L. Min Geoffrey C. Nicholson Deborah J. Clegg Thomas N. Person Jon P. Krohn Sabrina Bauer Christa Buechler Kristina Eisinger Amélie Bonnefond Philippe Froguel Jouke‐Jan Hottenga Inga Prokopenko Lindsay L. Waite Tamara B. Harris Albert V. Smith Alan R. Shuldiner Wendy L. McArdle Mark J. Caulfield Patricia B. Munroe Henrik Grönberg Yii-Der Ida Chen Li Guo J. Beckmann Toby Johnson Unnur Þorsteinsdóttir Maris Teder‐Laving Kay‐Tee Khaw Nicholas J. Wareham Wei Zhao Najaf Amin Ben A. Oostra Aldi T. Kraja Michael A. Province L. Adrienne Cupples Nancy L. Heard‐Costa Jaakko Kaprio Samuli Ripatti Ida Surakka Francis S. Collins Jouko Saramies Jaakko Tuomilehto Antti Jula Veikko Salomaa Jeanette Erdmann Christian Hengstenberg Christina Loley Heribert Schunkert Claudia Lamina H.-Erich Wichmann Eva Albrecht Christian Gieger Andrew A. Hicks Åsa Johansson Peter P. Pramstaller Sekar Kathiresan Elizabeth K. Speliotes Brenda W.J.H. Penninx Anna-Liisa Hartikainen Marjo‐Riitta Järvelin Ulf Gyllensten Dorret I. Boomsma Harry Campbell James F. Wilson Stephen J. Chanock Martin Farrall Anuj Goel Carolina Medina‐Gómez Fernando Rivadeneira Karol Estrada André G. Uitterlinden Albert Hofman M. Carola Zillikens

Given the anthropometric differences between men and women previous evidence of sex-difference in genetic effects, we conducted a genome-wide search for sexually dimorphic associations with height, weight, body mass index, waist circumference, hip waist-to-hip-ratio (133,723 individuals) took forward 348 SNPs into follow-up (additional 137,052 total 94 studies. Seven loci displayed significant (FDR<5%), including four previously established (near GRB14/COBLL1, LYPLAL1/SLC30A10, VEGFA,...

10.1371/journal.pgen.1003500 article EN cc-by PLoS Genetics 2013-06-06
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