Rare coding variants and X-linked loci associated with age at menarche

Kathryn L. Lunetta, Felix R. Day, Patrick Sulem, Katherine S. Ruth, Joyce Y. Tung, David A. Hinds, Tonu Esko, Cathy E. Elks, Elisabeth Altmaier, Chunyan He, Jennifer E. Huffman, Evelin Mihailov, Eleonora Porcu, Antonietta Robino, Lynda M. Rose, Ursula M. Schick, Lisette Stolk, Alexander Teumer, Deborah J. Thompson, Michela TragliaCarol A. Wang, Laura M. Yerges-Armstrong, Antonis C. Antoniou, Caterina Barbieri, Andrea D. Coviello, Francesco Cucca, Ellen W. Demerath, Alison M. Dunning, Ilaria Gandin, Megan L. Grove, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Lynne J. Hocking, Albert Hofman, Jinyan Huang, Rebecca D. Jackson, David Karasik, Jennifer Kriebel, Ethan M. Lange, Leslie A. Lange, Claudia Langenberg, Xin Li, Jian'an Luan, Reedik Maegi, Alanna C. Morrison, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Ailith Pirie, Ozren Polasek, David Porteous, Alex P. Reiner, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, ,

Research output: Contribution to journalArticleAcademicpeer-review

1 Downloads (Pure)

Abstract

More than 100 loci have been identified for age at menarche by genome-wide association studies; however, collectively these explain only similar to 3% of the trait variance. Here we test two overlooked sources of variation in 192,974 European ancestry women: low-frequency proteincoding variants and X-chromosome variants. Five missense/nonsense variants (in ALMS1/LAMB2/TNRC6A/TACR3/PRKAG1) are associated with age at menarche (minor allele frequencies 0.08-4.6%; effect sizes 0.08-1.25 years per allele; P

Original languageEnglish
Article number7756
Number of pages7
JournalNature Communications [E]
Volume6
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Aug 2015

Keywords

  • GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION
  • SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI
  • IDENTIFICATION
  • METAANALYSIS
  • MUTATIONS
  • CANCER
  • LAMB2

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Rare coding variants and X-linked loci associated with age at menarche'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this