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 language | English |
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Article number | 7756 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Nature Communications [E] |
Volume | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Aug 2015 |
Keywords
- GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION
- SUSCEPTIBILITY LOCI
- IDENTIFICATION
- METAANALYSIS
- MUTATIONS
- CANCER
- LAMB2