Hundreds of variants clustered in genomic loci and biological pathways affect human height
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Most common human traits and diseases have a polygenic pattern of inheritance: DNA sequence variants at many genetic loci influence the phenotype. Genome-wide association (GWA) studies have identified more than 600 variants associated with human traits, but these typically explain small fractions of phenotypic variation, raising questions about the use of further studies. Here, using 183,727 individuals, we show that hundreds of genetic variants, in at least 180 loci, influence adult height, a highly heritable and classic polygenic trait. The large number of loci reveals patterns with important implications for genetic studies of common human diseases and traits. First, the 180 loci are not random, but instead are enriched for genes that are connected in biological pathways (P = 0.016) and that underlie skeletal growth defects (P < 0.001). Second, the likely causal gene is often located near the most strongly associated variant: in 13 of 21 loci containing a known skeletal growth gene, that gene was closest to the associated variant. Third, at least 19 loci have multiple independently associated variants, suggesting that allelic heterogeneity is a frequent feature of polygenic traits, that comprehensive explorations of already-discovered loci should discover additional variants and that an appreciable fraction of associated loci may have been identified. Fourth, associated variants are enriched for likely functional effects on genes, being over-represented among variants that alter amino-acid structure of proteins and expression levels of nearby genes. Our data explain approximately 10% of the phenotypic variation in height, and we estimate that unidentified common variants of similar effect sizes would increase this figure to approximately 16% of phenotypic variation (approximately 20% of heritable variation). Although additional approaches are needed to dissect the genetic architecture of polygenic human traits fully, our findings indicate that GWA studies can identify large numbers of loci that implicate biologically relevant genes and pathways.
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SNPs in genes encoding LATS2, TEAD1, YAP1, VGLL2, VGLL3, and VGLL4 are associated with body height.
“Indeed, SNPs associated with genes encoding for LATS2, TEAD1, YAP1, VGLL2, VGLL3, and VGLL4 are associated with body height (23, 57, 78, 152).”
From The Hippo signal transduction network for exercise physiologists (2016) · cites this paper as [78]
The paper reports height-associated SNPs and loci in its main text (section labeled Abstract; page unavailable), but the retrieved passages do not link any of them to LATS2, TEAD1, YAP1, VGLL2, VGLL3, or VGLL4. Searches for the six gene names and for Hippo-pathway height associations found no passage establishing the specific claim. (LLM, conf=0.73)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredTrait-specific consortia formed to accelerate genetic discovery through aggregation and meta-analysis of data from multiple GWAS studies.
“A host of trait-specific consortia formed, covering diverse dichotomous and quantitative phenotypes, to accelerate genetic discovery through the aggregation and meta-analysis of data from multiple GWAS studies41–43.”
From A brief history of human disease genetics (2020) · cites this paper as [43]
Common diseases are not simply aggregations of related Mendelian conditions; for most complex traits, genetic predisposition is shared across thousands of mostly common variants with individually modest effects on population risk.
“Common diseases are not simply aggregations of related Mendelian conditions: for most complex traits, genetic predisposition is shared across thousands of mostly common variants with individually modest effects on population risk41,43.”
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In large meta-analyses of height and BMI involving several hundred thousand people, it is unlikely that more than a few hundred loci will ever be confirmed for most diseases, and these may not explain even half of genetic variance.
“as shown by the massive meta-analyses of GWAS for height and body mass index (BMI)13,14, each involving several hundred thousand people, it is unlikely that more than a few hundred loci will ever be confirmed for most diseases, and these will not necessarily explain even half of the genetic variance.”
From Rare and common variants: twenty arguments (2012) · cites this paper as [14]
In height, the GIANT consortium confirmed inferences from 30,000 individuals when it expanded to 180,000, finding an additional 180 or so loci.
“in the case of height, the GIANT consortium (http://www.broadinstitute.org/collaboration/giant/) confirmed the inferences from 30,000 individuals100 when they jumped to 180,000, finding an additional 180 or so loci14.”
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The large-scale impact of large numbers of common variants may be a general feature of human complex traits.
“Indeed, the large-scale impact of large numbers of common variants may be a general feature of human complex traits 70–77”
From Genetic architectures of psychiatric disorders: the emerging picture and its implications (2012) · cites this paper as [76]
Hypothesized genetic architectures consisting entirely of rare variants are inconsistent with the data for AD, ASD, BIP, and SCZ (as well as for multiple other complex biomedical diseases).
“Hypothesized genetic architectures consisting entirely of rare variants are inconsistent with the data for AD, ASD, BIP, and SCZ (as well as for multiple other complex biomedical diseases). 70–77”
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- Erasmus MC (NL)
- Montreal Heart Institute (CA)
- National Institutes of Health (US)
- University of Exeter (GB)
- University of Michigan (US)
- Broad Institute (US)
- Centre for Human Genetics (GB)
- Wellcome Sanger Institute (GB)
- King's College London (GB)
- QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute (AU)
- deCODE Genetics (Iceland) (IS)
- Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
- McGill University Health Centre (CA)
- Harvard University (US)
- Helmholtz Munich (DE)
- Addenbrooke's Hospital (GB)
- University Hospital Regensburg (DE)
- The University of Melbourne (AU)
- Uppsala University (SE)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Estonian Biocentre (EE)
- University of London (GB)
- HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (US)
- Universität Greifswald (DE)
- University of Washington (US)
- Western General Hospital (GB)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- National Cancer Institute (US)
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (CH)
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- University of Lübeck (DE)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
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- University of Helsinki (FI)
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- Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases (GB)
- University of Maryland, Baltimore (US)
- Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) (US)
- University of Gothenburg (SE)
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- University of Milan (IT)
- Institute of Genetic and Biomedical Research (IT)
- Boston University (US)
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- University of Edinburgh (GB)
- Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (IT)
- British Heart Foundation (GB)
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- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- University of Sassari (IT)
- University of Oulu (FI)
- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (FI)
- Eurac Research (IT)
- Leipzig University (DE)
- Finnish Institute of Occupational Health (FI)
- Genome Institute of Singapore (SG)
- TUM Klinikum (DE)
- McMaster University (CA)
- Amgen (United States) (US)
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (US)
- National Health Service (GB)
- Helsinki University Hospital (FI)
- University of Zagreb (HR)
- Lapland Central Hospital (FI)
- University of Bristol (GB)
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CH)
- University of Southern California (US)
- Karolinska University Hospital (SE)
- Kaiser Permanente (US)
- Tampere University Hospital (FI)
- Radboud University Medical Center (NL)
- Universitätsmedizin Greifswald (DE)
- University of Turku (FI)
- University of Lausanne (CH)
- The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (US)
- University of Regensburg (DE)
- Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (DE)
- GlaxoSmithKline (United States) (US)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (US)
- NYU Langone Health (US)
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine (US)
- National Institute on Aging (US)
- Sage Bionetworks (US)
- Corresponding author
- Weedon, Michael N.
- Abecasis, Gonçalo R.
- Frayling, Timothy M.
- Hirschhorn, Joel N.
- ORCID
- Estrada, Karol
- Lettre, Guillaume
- Berndt, Sonja I.
- Weedon, Michael N.
- Rivadeneira, Fernando
- Willer, Cristen J.
- Jackson, Anne U.
- Vedantam, Sailaja
- Raychaudhuri, Soumya
- Ferreira, Teresa
- Wood, Andrew R.
- Weyant, Robert J.
- Segrè, Ayellet V.
- Speliotes, Elizabeth K.
- Wheeler, Eleanor
- Soranzo, Nicole
- Park, Ju-Hyun
- Yang, Jian
- Gudbjartsson, Daniel
- Qi, Lu
- Mägi, Reedik
- Pastinen, Tomi
- Liang, Liming
- Heid, Iris M.
- Luan, Jian’an
- Winkler, Thomas W.
- Goddard, Michael E.
- Palmer, Cameron
- Workalemahu, Tsegaselassie
- Aulchenko, Yurii S.
- Johansson, Åsa
- Feitosa, Mary F.
- Esko, Tõnu
- Johnson, Toby
- Ketkar, Shamika
- Kraft, Peter
- Mangino, Massimo
- Prokopenko, Inga
- Ernst, Florian
- Glazer, Nicole L.
- Hayward, Caroline
- Hottenga, Jouke-Jan
- Jacobs, Kevin B.
- Knowles, Joshua W.
- Kutalik, Zoltán
- Preuss, Michael
- Rayner, Nigel W.
- Tyrer, Jonathan P.
- Voight, Benjamin F.
- Wiklund, Fredrik
- Xu, Jianfeng
- Nyholt, Dale R.
- Perola, Markus
- Perry, John R. B.
- Surakka, Ida
- Amin, Najaf
- Aspelund, Thor
- Bhangale, Tushar
- Boucher, Gabrielle
- Chasman, Daniel I.
- Coin, Lachlan
- Cooper, Matthew N.
- Grundberg, Elin
- Hao, Ke
- Kaplan, Lee M.
- Kettunen, Johannes
- König, Inke R.
- Kwan, Tony
- Levinson, Douglas F.
- Lorentzon, Mattias
- Morris, Andrew P.
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- Dominiczak, Anna
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- Geus, Eco J. C.
- Havulinna, Aki S.
- Hicks, Andrew A.
- Hui, Jennie
- Igl, Wilmar
- Kajantie, Eero
- Kilpeläinen, Tuomas O.
- Koiranen, Markku
- Kovacs, Peter
- Laitinen, Jaana
- Liu, Jianjun
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- Maschio, Andrea
- Meitinger, Thomas
- Mulas, Antonella
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- Ridderstråle, Martin
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- Salomaa, Veikko
- Schreiber, Stefan
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- Waterworth, Dawn
- Assimes, Themistocles L.
- Barroso, Inês
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- Erdmann, Jeanette
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- Ouwehand, Willem H.
- Penninx, Brenda W.
- Pramstaller, Peter P.
- Quertermous, Thomas
- Rudan, Igor
- Samani, Nilesh J.
- Völzke, Henry
- Watkins, Hugh
- Wilson, James F.
- Groop, Leif C.
- Haritunians, Talin
- Hu, Frank B.
- Kaplan, Robert C.
- Metspalu, Andres
- North, Kari E.
- Schlessinger, David
- Wareham, Nicholas J.
- O’Connell, Jeffrey R.
- Strachan, David P.
- Wichmann, H.-Erich
- Borecki, Ingrid B.
- Peltonen, Leena
- Uitterlinden, André G.
- Visscher, Peter M.
- Chatterjee, Nilanjan
- Loos, Ruth J. F.
- Boehnke, Michael
- McCarthy, Mark I.
- Ingelsson, Erik
- Lindgren, Cecilia M.
- Abecasis, Gonçalo R.
- Frayling, Timothy M.
- Hirschhorn, Joel N.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2010-09-29
- Volume
- 467
- Issue
- 7317
- Pages
- 832-838
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- PMC
- PMC2955183
- OpenAlex
- W2161998322
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- 115.72
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- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetics and Physical Performance
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Keywords
- human height, genetic variants, genetic loci, polygenic inheritance, biological pathways, causal genes, allelic heterogeneity, heritability
- MeSH terms
- Body Height, Chromosomes, Human, Pair 3, Humans, Phenotype, Genome, Human, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, Multifactorial Inheritance, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Metabolic Networks and Pathways, Genome-Wide Association Study, Genetic Loci
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