@article{vanderValkKreinerMollerKooijmanetal.2015,
  author    = {van der Valk, Ralf J. P. and Kreiner-Moller, Eskil and Kooijman, Marjolein N. and Guxens, Monica and Stergiakouli, Evangelia and Saaf, Annika and Bradfield, Jonathan P. and Geller, Frank and Hayes, M. Geoffrey and Cousminer, Diana L. and Koerner, Antje and Thiering, Elisabeth and Curtin, John A. and Myhre, Ronny and Huikari, Ville and Joro, Raimo and Kerkhof, Marjan and Warrington, Nicole M. and Pitkanen, Niina and Ntalla, Ioanna and Horikoshi, Momoko and Veijola, Riitta and Freathy, Rachel M. and Teo, Yik-Ying and Barton, Sheila J. and Evans, David M. and Kemp, John P. and St Pourcain, Beate and Ring, Susan M. and Smith, George Davey and Bergstrom, Anna and Kull, Inger and Hakonarson, Hakon and Mentch, Frank D. and Bisgaard, Hans and Chawes, Bo Lund Krogsgaard and Stokholm, Jakob and Waage, Johannes and Eriksen, Patrick and Sevelsted, Astrid and Melbye, Mads and van Duijn, Cornelia M. and Medina-Gomez, Carolina and Hofman, Albert and de Jongste, Johan C. and Taal, H. Rob and Uitterlinden, Andre G. and Armstrong, Loren L. and Eriksson, Johan and Palotie, Aarno and Bustamante, Mariona and Estivill, Xavier and Gonzalez, Juan R. and Llop, Sabrina and Kiess, Wieland and Mahajan, Anubha and Flexeder, Claudia and Tiesler, Carla M. T. and Murray, Clare S. and Simpson, Angela and Magnus, Per and Sengpiel, Verena and Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa and Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka and Lewin, Alexandra and Alves, Alexessander Da Silva Couto and Blakemore, Alexandra I. F. and Buxton, Jessica L. and Kaakinen, Marika and Rodriguez, Alina and Sebert, Sylvain and Vaarasmaki, Marja and Lakka, Timo and Lindi, Virpi and Gehring, Ulrike and Postma, Dirkje S. and Ang, Wei and Newnham, John P. and Lyytikainen, Leo-Pekka and Pahkala, Katja and Raitakari, Olli T. and Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope and Zeggini, Eleftheria and Boomsma, Dorret I. and Groen-Blokhuis, Maria and Ilonen, Jorma and Franke, Lude and Hirschhorn, Joel N. and Pers, Tune H. and Liang, Liming and Huang, Jinyan and Hocher, Berthold and Knip, Mikael and Saw, Seang-Mei and Holloway, John W. and Melen, Erik and Grant, Struan F. A. and Feenstra, Bjarke and Lowe, William L. and Widen, Elisabeth and Sergeyev, Elena and Grallert, Harald and Custovic, Adnan and Jacobsson, Bo and Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta and Atalay, Mustafa and Koppelman, Gerard H. and Pennell, Craig E. and Niinikoski, Harri and Dedoussis, George V. and Mccarthy, Mark I. and Frayling, Timothy M. and Sunyer, Jordi and Timpson, Nicholas J. and Rivadeneira, Fernando and Bonnelykke, Klaus and Jaddoe, Vincent W. V.},
  title     = {A novel common variant in DCST2 is associated with length in early life and height in adulthood},
  series = {Human molecular genetics},
  volume    = {24},
  journal   = {Human molecular genetics},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Oxford Univ. Press},
  address   = {Oxford},
  organization    = {Early Genetics Lifecourse, Genetic Invest ANthropometric, Early Growth Genetics EGG},
  issn      = {0964-6906},
  doi       = {10.1093/hmg/ddu510},
  pages     = {1155 -- 1168},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Common genetic variants have been identified for adult height, but not much is known about the genetics of skeletal growth in early life. To identify common genetic variants that influence fetal skeletal growth, we meta-analyzed 22 genome-wide association studies (Stage 1; N = 28 459). We identified seven independent top single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) (P < 1 x 10(-6)) for birth length, of which three were novel and four were in or near loci known to be associated with adult height (LCORL, PTCH1, GPR126 and HMGA2). The three novel SNPs were followed-up in nine replication studies (Stage 2; N = 11 995), with rs905938 in DC-STAMP domain containing 2 (DCST2) genome-wide significantly associated with birth length in a joint analysis (Stages 1 + 2; beta = 0.046, SE = 0.008, P = 2.46 x 10(-8), explained variance = 0.05\%). Rs905938 was also associated with infant length (N = 28 228; P = 5.54 x 10(-4)) and adult height (N = 127 513; P = 1.45 x 10(-5)). DCST2 is a DC-STAMP-like protein family member and DC-STAMP is an osteoclast cell-fusion regulator. Polygenic scores based on 180 SNPs previously associated with human adult stature explained 0.13\% of variance in birth length. The same SNPs explained 2.95\% of the variance of infant length. Of the 180 known adult height loci, 11 were genome-wide significantly associated with infant length (SF3B4, LCORL, SPAG17, C6orf173, PTCH1, GDF5, ZNFX1, HHIP, ACAN, HLA locus and HMGA2). This study highlights that common variation in DCST2 influences variation in early growth and adult height.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{IkramFornageSmithetal.2012,
  author    = {Ikram, M. Arfan and Fornage, Myriam and Smith, Albert V. and Seshadri, Sudha and Schmidt, Reinhold and Debette, Stephanie and Vrooman, Henri A. and Sigurdsson, Sigurdur and Ropele, Stefan and Taal, H. Rob and Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O. and Coker, Laura H. and Longstreth, W. T. and Niessen, Wiro J. and DeStefano, Anita L. and Beiser, Alexa and Zijdenbos, Alex P. and Struchalin, Maksim and Jack, Clifford R. and Rivadeneira, Fernando and Uitterlinden, Andre G. and Knopman, David S. and Hartikainen, Anna-Liisa and Pennell, Craig E. and Thiering, Elisabeth and Steegers, Eric A. P. and Hakonarson, Hakon and Heinrich, Joachim and Palmer, Lyle J. and Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta and McCarthy, Mark I. and Grant, Struan F. A. and St Pourcain, Beate and Timpson, Nicholas J. and Smith, George Davey and Sovio, Ulla and Nalls, Mike A. and Au, Rhoda and Hofman, Albert and Gudnason, Haukur and van der Lugt, Aad and Harris, Tamara B. and Meeks, William M. and Vernooij, Meike W. and van Buchem, Mark A. and Catellier, Diane and Jaddoe, Vincent W. V. and Gudnason, Vilmundur and Windham, B. Gwen and Wolf, Philip A. and van Duijn, Cornelia M. and Mosley, Thomas H. and Schmidt, Helena and Launer, Lenore J. and Breteler, Monique M. B. and DeCarli, Charles and Adair, Linda S. and Ang, Wei and Atalay, Mustafa and vanBeijsterveldt, Toos and Bergen, Nienke and Benke, Kelly and Berry, Diane J. and Coin, Lachlan and Davis, Oliver S. P. and Elliott, Paul and Flexeder, Claudia and Frayling, Tim and Gaillard, Romy and Groen-Blokhuis, Maria and Goh, Liang-Kee and Haworth, Claire M. A. and Hadley, Dexter and Hebebrand, Johannes and Hinney, Anke and Hirschhorn, Joel N. and Holloway, John W. and Holst, Claus and Hottenga, Jouke Jan and Horikoshi, Momoko and Huikari, Ville and Hypponen, Elina and Kilpelainen, Tuomas O. and Kirin, Mirna and Kowgier, Matthew and Lakka, Hanna-Maaria and Lange, Leslie A. and Lawlor, Debbie A. and Lehtimaki, Terho and Lewin, Alex and Lindgren, Cecilia and Lindi, Virpi and Maggi, Reedik and Marsh, Julie and Middeldorp, Christel and Millwood, Iona and Murray, Jeffrey C. and Nivard, Michel and Nohr, Ellen Aagaard and Ntalla, Ioanna and Oken, Emily and Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope and Pararajasingham, Jennifer and Rodriguez, Alina and Salem, Rany M. and Sebert, Sylvain and Siitonen, Niina and Strachan, David P. and Teo, Yik-Ying and Valcarcel, Beatriz and Willemsen, Gonneke and Zeggini, Eleftheria and Boomsma, Dorret I. and Cooper, Cyrus and Gillman, Matthew and Hocher, Berthold and Lakka, Timo A. and Mohlke, Karen L. and Dedoussis, George V. and Ong, Ken K. and Pearson, Ewan R. and Price, Thomas S. and Power, Chris and Raitakari, Olli T. and Saw, Seang-Mei and Scherag, Andre and Simell, Olli and Sorensen, Thorkild I. A. and Wilson, James F.},
  title     = {Common variants at 6q22 and 17q21 are associated with intracranial volume},
  series = {Nature genetics},
  volume    = {44},
  journal   = {Nature genetics},
  number    = {5},
  publisher = {Nature Publ. Group},
  address   = {New York},
  organization    = {Early Growth Genetics EGG Consorti, Cohorts Heart Aging Res Genomic Ep},
  issn      = {1061-4036},
  doi       = {10.1038/ng.2245},
  pages     = {539 -- +},
  year      = {2012},
  abstract  = {During aging, intracranial volume remains unchanged and represents maximally attained brain size, while various interacting biological phenomena lead to brain volume loss. Consequently, intracranial volume and brain volume in late life reflect different genetic influences. Our genome-wide association study (GWAS) in 8,175 community-dwelling elderly persons did not reveal any associations at genome-wide significance (P < 5 x 10(-8)) for brain volume. In contrast, intracranial volume was significantly associated with two loci: rs4273712 (P = 3.4 x 10(-11)), a known height-associated locus on chromosome 6q22, and rs9915547 (P = 1.5 x 10(-12)), localized to the inversion on chromosome 17q21. We replicated the associations of these loci with intracranial volume in a separate sample of 1,752 elderly persons (P = 1.1 x 10(-3) for 6q22 and 1.2 x 10(-3) for 17q21). Furthermore, we also found suggestive associations of the 17q21 locus with head circumference in 10,768 children (mean age of 14.5 months). Our data identify two loci associated with head size, with the inversion at 17q21 also likely to be involved in attaining maximal brain size.},
  language  = {en}
}