Quantitative-Trait-Locus Analysis of Body-Mass Index and of Stature, by Combined Analysis of Genome Scans of Five Finnish Study Groups
AUTOR(ES)
Perola, Markus
FONTE
The American Society of Human Genetics
RESUMO
In recent years, many genomewide screens have been performed, to identify novel loci predisposing to various complex diseases. Often, only a portion of the collected clinical data from the study subjects is used in the actual analysis of the trait, and much of the phenotypic data is ignored. With proper consent, these data could subsequently be used in studies of common quantitative traits influencing human biology, and such a reanalysis method would be further justified by the nonbiased ascertainment of study individuals. To make our point, we report here a quantitative-trait-locus (QTL) analysis of body-mass index (BMI) and stature (i.e., height), with genotypic data from genome scans of five Finnish study groups. The combined study group was composed of 614 individuals from 247 families. Five study groups were originally ascertained in genetic studies on hypertension, obesity, osteoarthritis, migraine, and familial combined hyperlipidemia. Most of the families are from the Finnish Twin Cohort, which represents a population-wide sample. In each of the five genome scans, ∼350 evenly spaced markers were genotyped on 22 autosomes. In analyzing the genotype data by a variance-component method, we found, on chromosome 7pter (maximum multipoint LOD score of 2.91), evidence for QTLs affecting stature, and a second locus, with suggestive evidence for linkage to stature, was detected on chromosome 9q (maximum multipoint LOD score of 2.61). Encouragingly, the locus on chromosome 7 is supported by the data reported by Hirschhorn et al. (in this issue), who used a similar method. We found no evidence for QTLs affecting BMI.
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