• Combined Influence of Waist and Hip Circumference on Risk of Death in a Large Cohort of European and Australian Adults 

      Cameron, Adrian J.; Romaniuk, Helena; Orellana, Liliana; Dallongeville, Jean; Dobson, Annette J; Drygas, Wojciech; Ferrario, Marco; Ferrieres, Jean; Giampaoli, Simona; Gianfagna, Francesco; Iacoviello, Licia; Jousilahti, Pekka; Kee, Frank; Moitry, Marie; Niiranen, Teemu J; Pajak, Andrzej; Palmieri, Luigi; Palosaari, Tarja; Mannisto, Satu; Tamosiunas, Abdonas; Thorand, Barbara; Toft, Ulla; Vanuzzo, Diego; Salomaa, Veikko; Veronesi, Giovanni; Wilsgaard, Tom; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Söderberg, Stefan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-30)
      Background - Waist circumference and hip circumference are both strongly associated with risk of death; however, their joint association has rarely been investigated.<p> <p>Methods and Results - The MONICA Risk, Genetics, Archiving, and Monograph (MORGAM) Project was conducted in 30 cohorts from 11 countries; 90 487 men and women, aged 30 to 74 years, predominantly white, with no history of ...
    • Global Effect of Modifiable Risk Factors on Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality. 

      Magnussen, Christina; Ojeda, Francisco M.; Leong, Darryl P.; Alegre-Diaz, Jesus; Amouyel, Philippe; Aviles-Santa, Larissa; De Bacquer, Dirk; Ballantyne, Christie M.; Bernabé-Ortiz, Antonio; Bobak, Martin; Brenner, Hermann; Carrillo-Larco, Rodrigo M.; De Lemos, James; Dobson, Annette; Dörr, Marcus; Donfrancesco, Chiara; Drygas, Wojciech; Dullaart, Robin P.; Engström, Gunnar; Ferrario, Marco M.; Ferrières, Jean; De Gaetano, Giovanni; Goldbourt, Uri; Gonzalez, Clicerio; Grassi, Guido; Hodge, Allison M.; Hveem, Kristian; Iacoviello, Licia; Ikram, M. Kamran; Irazola, Vilma; Jobe, Modou; Jousilahti, Pekka; Kaleebu, Pontiano; Kavousi, Maryam; Kee, Frank; Khalili, Davood; Koenig, Wolfgang; Kontsevaya, Anna; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Lackner, Karl J.; Leistner, David M.; Lind, Lars; Linneberg, Allan; Lorenz, Thiess; Lyngbakken, Magnus Nakrem; Malekzadeh, Reza; Malyutina, Sofia; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Melander, Olle; Metspalu, Andres; Miranda, J. Jaime; Moitry, Marie; Mugisha, Joseph; Nalini, Mahdi; Nambi, Vijay; Ninomiya, Toshiharu; Oppermann, Karen; D'Orsi, Eleonora; Pająk, Andrzej; Palmieri, Luigi; Panagiotakos, Demosthenes; Perianayagam, Arokiasamy; Peters, Annette; Poustchi, Hossein; Prentice, Andrew M.; Prescott, Eva; Risérus, Ulf; Salomaa, Veikko; Sans, Susana; Sakata, Satoko; Schöttker, Ben; Schutte, Aletta E.; Sepanlou, Sadaf G.; Sharma, Sanjib Kumar; Shaw, Jonathan E.; Simons, Leon A.; Söderberg, Stefan; Tamosiunas, Abdonas; Thorand, Barbara; Tunstall-Pedoe, Hugh; Twerenbold, Raphael; Vanuzzo, Diego; Veronesi, Giovanni; Waibel, Julia; Wannamethee, S. Goya; Watanabe, Masafumi; Wild, Philipp S.; Yao, Yao; Zeng, Yi; Ziegler, Andreas; Blankenberg, Stefan (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      BACKGROUND - Five modifiable risk factors are associated with cardiovascular disease and death from any cause. Studies using individual-level data to evaluate the regional and sex-specific prevalence of the risk factors and their effect on these outcomes are lacking.<p> <p>METHODS - We pooled and harmonized individual-level data from 112 cohort studies conducted in 34 countries and 8 geographic ...
    • Obesity does not protect from subarachnoid haemorrhage: Pooled analysis of 3 large prospective Nordic cohorts 

      Rautalin, Ilari; Kaprio, Jaakko; Ingebrigtsen, Tor; Jousilahti, Pekka; Løchen, Maja-Lisa; Romundstad, Pål Richard; Salomaa, Veikko; Vik, Anne; Wilsgaard, Tom; Mathiesen, Ellisiv B.; Sandvei, Marie Søfteland; Korja, Miikka (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-11-10)
      Background and purpose: Several population-based cohort studies have related higher body mass index (BMI) to a decreased risk of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). The main objective of our study was to investigate whether the previously reported inverse association can be explained by modifying effects of the most important risk factors of SAH—smoking and hypertension.<p> <p>Methods: We conducted ...
    • A principal component meta-analysis on multiple anthropometric traits identifies novel loci for body shape 

      Ried, Janina S.; Jeff, Janina M.; Chu, Audrey Y.; Bragg-Gresham, Jennifer L.; Van Dongen, Jenny; Huffman, Jennifer E.; Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.; Cadby, Gemma; Eklund, Niina; Eriksson, Joel; Esko, Tonu; Feitosa, Mary F.; Goel, Anuj; Gorski, Mathias; Hayward, Caroline; Heard-Costa, Nancy L.; Jackson, Anne U.; Jokinen, Eero; Kanoni, Stavroula; Kristiansson, Kati; Kutalik, Zoltan; Lahti, Jari; Luan, Jian'an; Mägi, Reedik; Mahajan, Anubha; Mangino, Massimo; Medina-Gomez, Carolina; Monda, Keri L.; Nolte, Ilja M.; Perusse, Louis; Prokopenko, Inga; Qi, Lu; Rose, Lynda M.; Salvi, Erika; Smith, Megan T.; Snieder, Harold; Standakova, Alena; Ju Sung, Yun; Tachmazidou, Ioanna; Teumer, Alexander; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Van Der Harst, Pim; Walker, Ryan W.; Wang, Sophie R.; Wild, Sarah H.; Willems, Stefan M.; Wong, Andrew; Zhang, Weihua; Albrecht, Eva; Couto Alves, Alexessander; Bakker, Stephan J.L.; Barlassina, Cristina; Bartz, Traci M.; Beilby, John; Bellis, Claire; Bergman, Richard N; Bergmann, Sven; Blangero, John; Bluher, Matthias; Boerwinkle, Eric; Bonnycastle, Lori L.; Bornstein, Stefan R.; Bruinenberg, Marcel; Campbell, Harry; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Chiang, Charleston W.K.; Chines, Peter S.; Collins, Francis S.; Cucca, Fracensco; Cupples, L. Adrienne; D'avila, Francesca; de Geus, Eco J.C.; Dedoussis, George; Dimitriou, Maria; Döring, Angela; Eriksson, Johan G.; Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni; Farrall, Martin; Ferreira, Teresa; Fischer, Krista; Forouhi, Nita G.; Friedrich, Nele; Gjesing, Anette Prior; Glorioso, Nicola; Graff, Mariaelisa; Grallert, Harald; Grarup, Niels; Gräßler, Jurgen; Grewal, Jagvir; Hamsten, Anders; Harder, Marie Neergaard; Hartman, Catharina A.; Hassinen, Maija; Hastie, Nicholas; Hattersley, Andrew Tym; Havulinna, Aki S.; Heliövaara, Markku; Hillege, Hans; Hofman, Albert; Holmen, Oddgeir; Homuth, Georg; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Hui, Jennie; Husemoen, Lise Lotte; Hysi, Pirro G; Isaacs, Aaron; Ittermann, Till; Jalilzadeh, Shapour; James, Alan L; Jørgensen, Torben; Jousilahti, Pekka; Jula, Antti; Marie Justesen, Johanne; Justice, Anne E; Kähönen, Mika; Karaleftheri, Maria; Tee Khaw, Kay; Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, Sirkka M; Kinnunen, Leena; Knekt, Paul B; Koistinen, Heikki A; Kolcic, Ivana; Kooner, Ishminder K; Koskinen, Seppo; Kovacs, Peter; Kyriakou, Theodosios; Laitinen, Tomi; Langenberg, Claudia; Lewin, Alexandra M; Lichtner, Peter; Lindgren, Cecilia M; Lindström, Jaana; Linneberg, Allan; Lorbeer, Roberto; Lorentzon, Mattias; Luben, Robert; Lyssenko, Valeriya; Männistö, Satu; Manunta, Paolo; Leach, Irene Mateo; Mcardle, Wendy L; Mcknight, Barbara; Mohlke, Karen L; Mihailov, Evelin; Milani, Lili; Mills, Rebecca; Montasser, May E; Morris, Andrew P; Muller, Gabriele; Musk, Arthur W; Narisu, Narisu; Ong, Ken K; Oostra, Ben A; Osmond, Clive; Palotie, Aarno; Pankow, James S; Paternoster, Lavinia; Penninx, Brenda W; Pichler, Irene; Pilia, Maria G; Polasek, Ozren; Pramstaller, Peter P; Raitakari, Olli T; Rankinen, Tuomo; Rao, DC; Rayner, Nigel W; Ribel-Madsen, Rasmus; Rice, Treva K; Richards, Marcus; Ridker, Paul M; Rivadeneira, Fernando; Ryan, Kathy A; Sanna, Serena; Sarzynski, Mark A; Scholtens, Salome; Scott, Robert A; Sebert, Sylvain; Southam, Lorraine; Sparsø, Thomas Hempel; Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur; Stirrups, Kathleen; Stolk, Ronald P; Strauch, Konstantin; Stringham, Heather M; Swertz, Morris A; Swift, Amy J; Tönjes, Anke; Tsafantakis, Emmanouil; Van Der Most, Peter J; Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Jana V; Vandenput, Liesbeth; Vartiainen, Erkki; Venturini, Cristina; Verweij, Niek; Viikari, Jorma S; Vitart, Veronique; Vohl, Marie-Claude; Vonk, Judith M; Waeber, Gerard; Widen, Elisabeth; Willemsen, Gonneke; Wilsgaard, Tom; Winkler, Thomas W; Wright, Alan F; Yerges-Armstrong, Laura M; Zhao, Jing Hua; Carola Zillikens, M; Boomsma, Dorret I; Bouchard, Claude; Chambers, John C; Chasman, Daniel I; Cusi, Daniele; Gansevoort, Ron T; Gieger, Christian; Hansen, Torben; Hicks, Andrew A; Hu, Frank; Hveem, Kristian; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Kajantie, Eero; Kooner, Jaspal S; Kuh, Diana; Kuusisto, Johanna; Laakso, Markku; Lakka, Timo A; Lehtimäki, Terho; Metspalu, Andres; Njølstad, Inger; Ohlsson, Claes; Oldehinkel, Albertine J; Palmer, Lyle J; Pedersen, Oluf; Perola, Markus; Peters, Annette; Psaty, Bruce M; Puolijoki, Hannu; Rauramaa, Rainer; Rudan, Igor; Salomaa, Veikko; Schwarz, Peter E H; Shudiner, Alan R; Smit, Jan H; Sørensen, Thorkild I A; Spector, Timothy D; Stefansson, Kari; Stumvoll, Michael; Tremblay, Angelo; Tuomilehto, Jaakko; Uitterlinden, Andre G; Uusitupa, Matti; Völker, Uwe; Vollenweider, Peter; Wareham, Nicholas J; Watkins, Hugh; Wilson, James F; Zeggini, Eleftheria; Abecasis, Goncalo R; Boehnke, Michael; Borecki, Ingrid B; Deloukas, Panos; Van Duijn, Cornelia M; Fox, Caroline; Groop, Leif C; Heid, Iris M; Hunter, David J; Kaplan, Robert C; Mccarthy, Mark I; North, Kari E; O'connell, Jeffrey R; Schlessinger, David; Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur; Strachan, David P; Frayling, Timothy; Hirschhorn, Joel N; Muller-Nurasyid, Martina; Loos, Ruth J.F. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-11-23)
      Large consortia have revealed hundreds of genetic loci associated with anthropometric traits, one trait at a time. We examined whether genetic variants affect body shape as a composite phenotype that is represented by a combination of anthropometric traits. We developed an approach that calculates averaged PCs (AvPCs) representing body shape derived from six anthropometric traits (body mass index, ...
    • Quantification of the smoking-associated cancer risk with rate advancement periods: Meta-analysis of individual participant data from cohorts of the CHANCES consortium 

      Ordóñez-Mena, José Manuel; Schöttker, Ben; Mons, Ute; Jenab, Mazda; Freisling, Heinz; Bueno-De-Mesquita, Hendrik Bastiaan; O'Doherty, Mark G.; Scott, Angela; Kee, Frank; Stricker, Bruno H.; Hofman, Albert; de Keyser, Catherine E.; Ruiter, Rikje; Söderberg, Stefan; Jousilahti, Pekka; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Freedman, Neal D.; Wilsgaard, Tom; de Groot, Lisette C.P.G.M.; Kampman, Ellen; Håkansson, Niclas; Orsini, Nicola; Wolk, Alicja; Nilsson, Lena Maria; Tjønneland, Anne; Pająk, Andrzej; Malyutina, Sofia; Kúbinová, Růžena; Tamosiunas, Abdonas; Bobak, Martin; Katsoulis, Michail; Orfanos, Philippos; Boffetta, Paolo; Trichopoulou, Antonia; Brenner, Hermann (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-04-05)
      Background:<br> Smoking is the most important individual risk factor for many cancer sites but its association with breast and prostate cancer is not entirely clear. Rate advancement periods (RAPs) may enhance communication of smoking related risk to the general population. Thus, we estimated RAPs for the association of smoking exposure (smoking status, time since smoking cessation, smoking ...
    • Risk prediction of atrial fibrillation and its complications in the community using hs troponin I 

      Börschel, Christin S.; Geelhoed, Bastiaan; Niiranen, Teemu; Camen, Stephan; Donati, Maria Benedetta; Havulinna, Aki S.; Gianfagna, Francesco; Palosaari, Tarja; Jousilahti, Pekka; Kontto, Jukka; Vartiainen, Erkki; Ojeda, Francisco M.; den Ruijter, Hester M.; Costanzo, Simona; de Gaetano, Giovanni; Di Castelnuovo, Augusto; Linneberg, Allan; Vishram-Nielsen, Julie K.; Løchen, Maja-Lisa; Koenig, Wolfgang; Jørgensen, Torben; Kuulasmaa, Kari; Blankenberg, Stefan; Iacoviello, Licia; Zeller, Tanja; Söderberg, Stefan; Salomaa, Veikko; Schnabel, Renate B. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-01-05)
      Aims - Atrial fibrillation (AF) is becoming increasingly common. Traditional cardiovascular risk factors (CVRF) do not explain all AF cases. Blood-based biomarkers reflecting cardiac injury such as high-sensitivity troponin I (hsTnI) may help close this gap.<p> <p>Methods - We investigated the predictive ability of hsTnI for incident AF in 45,298 participants (median age 51.4 years, 45.0% men) ...
    • A saturated map of common genetic variants associated with human height 

      Yengo, Loïc; Vedantam, Sailaja; Marouli, Eirini; Sidorenko, Julia; Bartell, Eric; Sakaue, Saori; Graff, Marielisa; Eliasen, Anders U.; Jiang, Yunxuan; Raghavan, Sridharan; Miao, Jenkai; Arias, Joshua D.; Graham, Sarah E.; Mukamel, Ronen E.; Spracklen, Cassandra N.; Yin, Xianyong; Chen, Shyh-Huei; Ferreira, Teresa; Highland, Heather H.; Ji, Yingjie; Karaderi, Tugce; Lin, Kuang; Lüll, Kreete; Malden, Deborah E.; Medina-Gomez, Carolina; Machado, Moara; Moore, Amy; Rüeger, Sina; Sim, Xueling; Vrieze, Scott; Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S.; Akiyama, Masato; Allison, Matthew A.; Alvarez, Marcus; Andersen, Mette K.; Ani, Alireza; Appadurai, Vivek; Arbeeva, Liubov; Bhaskar, Seema; Bielak, Lawrence F.; Bollepalli, Sailalitha; Bonnycastle, Lori L.; Bork-Jensen, Jette; Bradfield, Jonathan P.; Bradford, Yuki; Braund, Peter S.; Brody, Jennifer A.; Burgdorf, Kristoffer S.; Cade, Brian E.; Cai, Hui; Cai, Qiuyin; Campbell, Archie; Cañadas-Garre, Marisa; Catamo, Eulalia; Chai, Jin-Fang; Chai, Xiaoran; Chang, Li-Ching; Chang, Yi-Cheng; Chen, Chien-Hsiun; Chesi, Alessandra; Choi, Seung Hoan; Chung, Ren-Hua; Cocca, Massimiliano; Concas, Maria Pina; Couture, Christian; Cuellar-Partida, Gabriel; Danning, Rebecca; Daw, E. Warwick; Degenhard, Frauke; Delgado, Graciela E.; Delitala, Alessandro; Demirkan, Ayse; Deng, Xuan; Devineni, Poornima; Dietl, Alexander; Dimitriou, Maria; Dimitrov, Latchezar; Dorajoo, Rajkumar; Ekici, Arif B.; Engmann, Jorgen E.; Fairhurst-Hunter, Zammy; Farmaki, Aliki-Eleni; Faul, Jessica D.; Fernandez-Lopez, Juan-Carlos; Forer, Lukas; Francescatto, Margherita; Freitag-Wolf, Sandra; Fuchsberger, Christian; Galesloot, Tessel E.; Gao, Yan; Gao, Zishan; Geller, Frank; Giannakopoulou, Olga; Giulianini, Franco; Gjesing, Anette P.; Goel, Anuj; Gordon, Scott D.; Gorski, Mathias; Grove, Jakob; Guo, Xiuqing; Gustafsson, Stefan; Haessler, Jeffrey; Hansen, Thomas; Havulinna, Aki S.; Haworth, Simon J.; He, Jing; Heard-Costa, Nancy; Hebbar, Prashantha; Hindy, George; Ho, Yuk-Lam A.; Hofer, Edith; Holliday, Elizabeth; Horn, Katrin; Hornsby, Whitney E.; Hottenga, Jouke-Jan; Huang, Hongyan; Huang, Jie; Huerta-Chagoya, Alicia; Huffman, Jennifer E.; Hung, Yi-Jen; Huo, Shaofeng; Hwang, Mi Yeong; Iha, Hiroyuki; Ikeda, Daisuke D.; Isono, Masato; Jackson, Anne U.; Jäger, Susanne; Jansen, Iris E.; Johansson, Ingegerd; Jonas, Jost B.; Jonsson, Anna; Jørgensen, Torben; Kalafati, Ioanna-Panagiota; Kanai, Masahiro; Kanoni, Stavroula; Kårhus, Line L.; Kasturiratne, Anuradhani; Katsuya, Tomohiro; Kawaguchi, Takahisa; Kember, Rachel L.; Kentistou, Katherine A.; Kim, Han-Na; Kim, Young Jin; Kleber, Marcus E.; Knol, Maria J.; Kurbasic, Azra; Lauzon, Marie; Le, Phuong; Lea, Rodney; Lee, Jong-Young; Leonard, Hampton L.; Li, Shengchao A.; Li, Xiaohui; Li, Xiaoyin; Liang, Jingjing; Lin, Honghuang; Lin, Shih-Yi; Liu, Jun; Liu, Xueping; Lo, Ken Sin; Long, Jirong; Lores-Motta, Laura; Luan, Jian’an; Lyssenko, Valeriya; Lyytikäinen, Leo-Pekka; Mahajan, Anubha; Mamakou, Vasiliki; Mangino, Massimo; Manichaikul, Ani; Marten, Jonathan; Mattheisen, Manuel; Mavarani, Laven; McDaid, Aaron F.; Meidtner, Karina; Melendez, Tori L.; Mercader, Josep M.; Milaneschi, Yuri; Miller, Jason E.; Millwood, Iona Y.; Mishra, Pashupati P.; Mitchell, Ruth E.; Møllehave, Line T.; Morgan, Anna; Mucha, Soeren; Munz, Matthias; Nakatochi, Masahiro; Nelson, Christopher P.; Nethander, Maria; Nho, Chu Won; Nielsen, Aneta A.; Nolte, Ilja M.; Nongmaithem, Suraj S.; Noordam, Raymond; Ntalla, Ioanna; Nutile, Teresa; Pandit, Anita; Christofidou, Paraskevi; Pärna, Katri; Pauper, Marc; Petersen, Eva R. B.; Petersen, Liselotte V.; Pitkänen, Niina; Polašek, Ozren; Poveda, Alaitz; Preuss, Michael H.; Pyarajan, Saiju; Raffield, Laura M.; Rakugi, Hiromi; Ramirez, Julia; Rasheed, Asif; Raven, Dennis; Rayner, Nigel W.; Riveros, Carlos; Rohde, Rebecca; Ruggiero, Daniela; Ruotsalainen, Sanni E.; Ryan, Kathleen A.; Sabater-Lleal, Maria; Saxena, Richa; Scholz, Markus; Sendamarai, Anoop; Shen, Botong; Shi, Jingchunzi; Shin, Jae Hun; Sidore, Carlo; Sitlani, Colleen M.; Slieker, Roderick C.; Smit, Roelof A. J.; Smith, Albert V.; Smith, Jennifer A.; Smyth, Laura J.; Southam, Lorraine; Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur; Sun, Liang; Takeuchi, Fumihiko; Tallapragada, Divya Sri Priyanka; Taylor, Kent D.; Tayo, Bamidele O.; Tcheandjieu, Catherine; Terzikhan, Natalie; Tesolin, Paola; Teumer, Alexander; Theusch, Elizabeth; Thompson, Deborah J.; Thorleifsson, Gudmar; Timmers, Paul R. H. J.; Trompet, Stella; Turman, Constance; Vaccargiu, Simona; van der Laan, Sander W.; van der Most, Peter J.; van Klinken, Jan B.; van Setten, Jessica; Verma, Shefali S.; Verweij, Niek; Veturi, Yogasudha; Wang, Carol A.; Wang, Chaolong; Wang, Lihua; Wang, Zhe; Warren, Helen R.; Bin Wei, Wen; Wickremasinghe, Ananda R.; Wielscher, Matthias; Wiggins, Kerri L.; Winsvold, Bendik K S; Wong, Andrew; Wu, Yang; Wuttke, Matthias; Xia, Rui; Xie, Tian; Yamamoto, Ken; Yang, Jingyun; Yao, Jie; Young, Hannah; Yousri, Noha A.; Yu, Lei; Zeng, Lingyao; Zhang, Weihua; Zhang, Xinyuan; Zhao, Jing-Hua; Zhao, Wei; Zhou, Wei; Zimmermann, Martina E.; Zoledziewska, Magdalena; Adair, Linda S.; Adams, Hieab H. H.; Aguilar-Salinas, Carlos A.; Al-Mulla, Fahd; Arnett, Donna K.; Asselbergs, Folkert W.; Åsvold, Bjørn Olav; Attia, John; Banas, Bernhard; Bandinelli, Stefania; Bennett, David A.; Bergler, Tobias; Bharadwaj, Dwaipayan; Biino, Ginevra; Bisgaard, Hans; Boerwinkle, Eric; Böger, Carsten A.; Bønnelykke, Klaus; Boomsma, Dorret I.; Børglum, Anders D.; Borja, Judith B.; Bouchard, Claude; Bowden, Donald W.; Brandslund, Ivan; Brumpton, Ben Michael; Buring, Julie E.; Caulfield, Mark J.; Chambers, John C.; Chandak, Giriraj R.; Chanock, Stephen J.; Chaturvedi, Nish; Chen, Yii-Der Ida; Chen, Zhengming; Cheng, Ching-Yu; Christophersen, Ingrid E.; Ciullo, Marina; Cole, John W.; Collins, Francis S.; Cooper, Richard S.; Cruz, Miguel; Cucca, Francesco; Cupples, L. Adrienne; Cutler, Michael J.; Damrauer, Scott M.; Dantoft, Thomas M.; de Borst, Gert J.; de Groot, Lisette C. P. G. M.; De Jager, Philip L.; de Kleijn, Dominique P. V.; Janaka de Silva, de; Dedoussis, George V.; den Hollander, Anneke I.; Du, Shufa; Easton, Douglas F.; Elders, Petra J. M.; Eliassen, A. Heather; Ellinor, Patrick T.; Elmståhl, Sölve; Erdmann, Jeanette; Evans, Michele K.; Fatkin, Diane; Feenstra, Bjarke; Feitosa, Mary F.; Ferrucci, Luigi; Ford, Ian; Fornage, Myriam; Franke, Andre; Franks, Paul W.; Freedman, Barry I.; Gasparini, Paolo; Gieger, Christian; Girotto, Giorgia; Goddard, Michael E.; Golightly, Yvonne M.; Gonzalez-Villalpando, Clicerio; Gordon-Larsen, Penny; Grallert, Harald; Grant, Struan F. A.; Grarup, Niels; Griffiths, Lyn; Gudnason, Vilmundur; Haiman, Christopher; Hakonarson, Hakon; Hansen, Torben; Hartman, Catharina A.; Hattersley, Andrew T.; Hayward, Caroline; Heckbert, Susan R.; Heng, Chew-Kiat; Hengstenberg, Christian; Hewitt, Alex W.; Hishigaki, Haretsugu; Hoyng, Carel B.; Huang, Paul L.; Huang, Wei; Hunt, Steven C.; Hveem, Kristian; Hyppönen, Elina; Iacono, William G.; Ichihara, Sahoko; Ikram, M. Arfan; Isasi, Carmen R.; Jackson, Rebecca D.; Jarvelin, Marjo-Riitta; Jin, Zi-Bing; Jöckel, Karl-Heinz; Joshi, Peter K.; Jousilahti, Pekka; Jukema, J. Wouter; Kähönen, Mika; Kamatani, Yoichiro; Kang, Kui Dong; Kaprio, Jaakko; Kardia, Sharon L. R.; Karpe, Fredrik; Kato, Norihiro; Kee, Frank; Kessler, Thorsten; Khera, Amit V.; Khor, Chiea Chuen; Kiemeney, Lambertus A. L. M.; Kim, Bong-Jo; Kim, Eung Kweon; Kim, Hyung-Lae; Kirchhof, Paulus; Kivimaki, Mika; Koh, Woon-Puay; Koistinen, Heikki A.; Kolovou, Genovefa D.; Kooner, Jaspal S.; Kooperberg, Charles; Köttgen, Anna; Kovacs, Peter; Kraaijeveld, Adriaan; Kraft, Peter; Krauss, Ronald M.; Kumari, Meena; Kutalik, Zoltan; Laakso, Markku; Lange, Leslie A.; Langenberg, Claudia; Launer, Lenore J.; Le Marchand, Loic; Lee, Hyejin; Lee, Nanette R.; Lehtimäki, Terho; Li, Huaixing; Li, Liming; Lieb, Wolfgang; Lin, Xu; Lind, Lars; Linneberg, Allan; Liu, Ching-Ti; Liu, Jianjun; Loeffler, Markus; London, Barry; Lubitz, Steven A.; Lye, Stephen J.; Mackey, David A.; Mägi, Reedik; Magnusson, Patrik K. E.; Marcus, Gregory M.; Vidal, Pedro Marques; Martin, Nicholas G.; März, Winfried; Matsuda, Fumihiko; McGarrah, Robert W.; McGue, Matt; McKnight, Amy Jayne; Medland, Sarah E.; Mellström, Dan; Metspalu, Andres; Mitchell, Braxton D.; Mitchell, Paul; Mook-Kanamori, Dennis O.; Morris, Andrew D.; Mucci, Lorelei A.; Munroe, Patricia B.; Nalls, Mike A.; Nazarian, Saman; Nelson, Amanda E.; Neville, Matt J.; Newton-Cheh, Christopher; Nielsen, Christopher Sivert; Nöthen, Markus M.; Ohlsson, Claes; Oldehinkel, Albertine J.; Orozco, Lorena; Pahkala, Katja; Pajukanta, Päivi; Palmer, Colin N. A.; Parra, Esteban J.; Pattaro, Cristian; Pedersen, Oluf; Pennell, Craig E.; Penninx, Brenda W. J. H.; Perusse, Louis; Peters, Annette; Peyser, Patricia A.; Porteous, David J.; Posthuma, Danielle; Power, Chris; Pramstaller, Peter P.; Province, Michael A.; Qi, Qibin; Qu, Jia; Rader, Daniel J.; Raitakari, Olli T.; Ralhan, Sarju; Rallidis, Loukianos S.; Rao, Dabeeru C.; Redline, Susan; Reilly, Dermot F.; Reiner, Alexander P.; Rhee, Sang Youl; Ridker, Paul M.; Rienstra, Michiel; Ripatti, Samuli; Ritchie, Marylyn D.; Roden, Dan M.; Rosendaal, Frits Richard; Rotter, Jerome I.; Rudan, Igor; Rutters, Femke; Sabanayagam, Charumathi; Saleheen, Danish; Salomaa, Veikko; Samani, Nilesh J.; Sanghera, Dharambir K.; Sattar, Naveed; Schmidt, Börge; Schmidt, Helena; Schmidt, Reinhold; Schulze, Matthias B.; Schunkert, Heribert; Scott, Laura J.; Scott, Rodney J.; Sever, Peter; Shiroma, Eric J.; Shoemaker, M. Benjamin; Shu, Xiao-Ou; Simonsick, Eleanor M.; Sims, Mario; Singh, Jai Rup; Singleton, Andrew B.; Sinner, Moritz F.; Smith, J. 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      Common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are predicted to collectively explain 40–50% of phenotypic variation in human height, but identifying the specifc variants and associated regions requires huge sample sizes1 . Here, using data from a genome-wide association study of 5.4 million individuals of diverse ancestries, we show that 12,111 independent SNPs that are signifcantly associated ...