Novel Approach Identifies SNPs in SLC2A10 and KCNK9 with Evidence for Parent-of-Origin Effect on Body Mass Index

The phenotypic effect of some single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) depends on their parental origin. We present a novel approach to detect parent-of-origin effects (POEs) in genome-wide genotype data of unrelated individuals. The method exploits increased phenotypic variance in the heterozygous ge...

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Main Authors: Hoggart, Clive J., Venturini, Giulia, Mangino, Massimo, Gomez, Felicia, Ascari, Giulia, Zhao, Jing Hua, Teumer, Alexander, Winkler, Thomas W., Tšernikova, Natalia, Luan, Jian'an, Mihailov, Evelin, Ehret, Georg B., Zhang, Weihua, Lamparter, David, Esko, Tõnu, Macé, Aurelien, Rüeger, Sina, Bochud, Pierre-Yves, Barcella, Matteo, Dauvilliers, Yves, Benyamin, Beben, Evans, David M., Hayward, Caroline, Lopez, Mary F., Franke, Lude, Russo, Alessia, Heid, Iris M., Salvi, Erika, Vendantam, Sailaja, Arking, Dan E., Boerwinkle, Eric, Chambers, John C., Fiorito, Giovanni, Grallert, Harald, Guarrera, Simonetta, Homuth, Georg, Huffman, Jennifer E., Porteous, David, Moradpour, Darius, Iranzo, Alex, Hebebrand, Johannes, Kemp, John P., Lammers, Gert J., Aubert, Vincent, Heim, Markus H., Martin, Nicholas G., Montgomery, Grant W., Peraita-Adrados, Rosa, Santamaria, Joan, Negro, Francesco, Schmidt, Carsten O., Scott, Robert A., Spector, Tim D., Strauch, Konstantin, Völzke, Henry, Wareham, Nicholas J., Yuan, Wei, Bell, Jordana T., Chakravarti, Aravinda, Kooner, Jaspal S., Peters, Annette, Matullo, Giuseppe, Wallaschofski, Henri, Whitfield, John B., Paccaud, Fred, Vollenweider, Peter, Bergmann, Sven, Beckmann, Jacques S., Tafti, Mehdi, Hastie, Nicholas D., Cusi, Daniele, Bochud, Murielle, Frayling, Timothy M., Metspalu, Andres, Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta, Scherag, André, Smith, George Davey, Borecki, Ingrid B., Rousson, Valentin, Hirschhorn, Joel N., Rivolta, Carlo, Loos, Ruth J. F., Kutalik, Zoltán
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2014
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4117451/