• Influence of common genetic variation on lung cancer risk: meta-analysis of 14 900 cases and 29 485 controls 

      Timofeeva, MN; Hung, RJ; Rafnar, T; Christiani, DC; Field, JK; Bickeboller, H; Risch, A; McKay, JD; Wang, Y; Dai, J; Gaborieau, V; McLaughlin, J; Brenner, D; Narod, SA; Caporaso, NE.; Albanes, D; Thun, M; Eisen, T; Wichmann, HE; Rosenberger, A; Han, Y; Chen, W; Zhu, D; Spitz, M; Wu, X; Pande, M; Zhao, Y; Zaridze, D; Szeszenia-Dabrowska, N; Lissowska, J; Rudnai, P; Fabianova, E; Mates, D; Bencko, V; Foretova, L; Janout, V; Krokan, Hans Einar; Gabrielsen, Maiken Elvestad; Skorpen, Frank; Vatten, Lars Johan; Njølstad, Inger; Chen, C; Goodman, G; Lathrop, M; Benhamou, S; Vooder, T; Valk, K; Nelis, M; Metspalu, Andres; Raji, O; Chen, Y; Gosney, J; Liloglou, T; Muley, T; Dienemann, H; Thorleifsson, G; Shen, H.; Stefansson, Kari; Brennan, Paul; Amos, CI; Houlston, Richard; Landi, MT (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
      Recent genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified common genetic variants at 5p15.33, 6p21–6p22 and 15q25.1 associated with lung cancer risk. Several other genetic regions including variants of CHEK2 (22q12), TP53BP1 (15q15) and RAD52 (12p13) have been demonstrated to influence lung cancer risk in candidate- or pathway-based analyses. To identify novel risk variants for lung cancer, we ...
    • Sex-stratified genome-wide association studies including 270,000 individuals show sexual dimorphism in genetic loci for anthropometric traits 

      Randall, JC; Winkler, TW; Kutalik, Z; Berndt, SI; Jackson, AU; Monda, KL; Kilpelainen, TO; Esko, T; Magi, R; Li, SX; Workalemahu, T; Feitosa, MF; Croteau-Chonka, DC; Day, FR; Fall, T; Ferreira, T; Gustafsson, S; Locke, AE; Mathieson, I; Scherag, A; Vedantam, S; Wood, AR; Liang, LM; Steinthorsdottir, V; Thorleifsson, G; Dermitzakis, ET; Dimas, AS; Karpe, F; Min, JL; Nicholson, G; Clegg, DJ; Person, T; Krohn, JP; Bauer, S; Buechler, C; Eisinger, K; Bonnefond, A; Froguel, P; Hottenga, JJ; Prokopenko, I; Waite, LL; Harris, TB; Smith, AV; Shuldiner, AR; McArdle, WL; Caulfield, MJ; Munroe, PB; Gronberg, H; Chen, YDI; Li, G; Beckmann, JS; Johnson, T; Thorsteinsdottir, U; Teder-Laving, M; Khaw, KT; Wareham, NJ; Zhao, JH; Amin, N; Oostra, BA; Kraja, AT; Province, MA; Cupples, LA; Heard-Costa, NL; Kaprio, J; Ripatti, S; Surakka, I; Collins, FS; Saramies, J; Tuomilehto, J; Jula, A; Salomaa, V; Erdmann, J; Hengstenberg, C; Loley, C; Schunkert, H; Lamina, C; Wichmann, HE; Albrecht, E; Gieger, C; Hicks, AA; Johansson, A; Pramstaller, PP; Kathiresan, S; Speliotes, EK; Penninx, B; Hartikainen, AL; Jarvelin, MR; Gyllensten, U; Boomsma, DI; Campbell, H; Wilson, JF; Chanock, SJ; Farrall, M; Goel, A; Medina-Gomez, C; Rivadeneira, F; Estrada, K; Uitterlinden, AG; Hofman, A; Zillikens, MC; den Heijer, M; Kiemeney, LA; Maschio, A; Hall, P; Tyrer, J; Teumer, A; Volzke, H; Kovacs, P; Tonjes, A; Mangino, M; Spector, TD; Hayward, C; Rudan, I; Hall, AS; Samani, NJ; Attwood, AP; Sambrook, JG; Hung, J; Palmer, LJ; Lokki, ML; Sinisalo, J; Boucher, G; Huikuri, H; Lorentzon, M; Ohlsson, C; Eklund, N; Eriksson, JG; Barlassina, C; Rivolta, C; Nolte, IM; Snieder, H; Van der Klauw, MM; Van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, JV; Gejman, PV; Shi, JX; Jacobs, KB; Wang, ZM; Bakker, SJL; Leach, IM; Navis, G; van der Harst, P; Martin, NG; Medland, SE; Montgomery, GW; Yang, J; Chasman, DI; Ridker, PM; Rose, LM; Lehtimaki, T; Raitakari, O; Absher, D; Iribarren, C; Basart, H; Hovingh, KG; Hypponen, E; Power, C; Anderson, D; Beilby, JP; Hui, JN; Jolley, J; Sager, H; Bornstein, SR; Schwarz, PEH; Kristiansson, K; Perola, M; Lindstrom, J; Swift, AJ; Uusitupa, M; Atalay, M; Lakka, TA; Rauramaa, R; Bolton, JL; Fowkes, G; Fraser, RM; Price, JF; Fischer, K; KrjutAikov, K; Metspalu, A; Mihailov, E; Langenberg, C; Luan, JA; Ong, KK; Chines, PS; Keinanen-Kiukaanniemi, SM; Saaristo, TE; Edkins, S; Franks, PW; Hallmans, G; Shungin, D; Morris, AD; Palmer, CNA; Erbel, R; Moebus, S; Nothen, MM; Pechlivanis, S; Hveem, Kristian; Narisu, N; Hamsten, A; Humphries, SE; Strawbridge, RJ; Tremoli, E; Grallert, H; Thorand, B; Illig, T; Koenig, W; Muller-Nurasyid, M; Peters, A; Boehm, BO; Kleber, ME; Marz, W; Winkelmann, BR; Kuusisto, J; Laakso, M; Arveiler, D; Cesana, G; Kuulasmaa, K; Virtamo, J; Yarnell, JWG; Kuh, D; Wong, A; Lind, L; de Faire, U; Gigante, B; Magnusson, PKE; Pedersen, NL; Dedoussis, G; Dimitriou, M; Kolovou, G; Kanoni, S; Stirrups, K; Bonnycastle, LL; Njølstad, Inger; Wilsgaard, Tom; Ganna, A; Rehnberg, E; Hingorani, A; Kivimaki, M; Kumari, M; Assimes, TL; Barroso, IS; Boehnke, M; Borecki, IB; Deloukas, P; Fox, CS; Frayling, T; Groop, LC; Haritunians, T; Hunter, D; Ingelsson, E; Kaplan, R; Mohlke, KL; O'Connell, JR; Schlessinger, D; Strachan, DP; Stefansson, K; van Duijn, CM; Abecasis, GR; McCarthy, MI; Hirschhorn, JN; Qi, L; Loos, Ruth J.F.; Lindgren, CM; North, KE; Heid, IM (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Given the anthropometric differences between men and women and previous evidence of sex-difference in genetic effects, we conducted a genome-wide search for sexually dimorphic associations with height, weight, body mass index, waist circumference, hip circumference, and waist-to-hip-ratio (133,723 individuals) and took forward 348 SNPs into follow-up (additional 137,052 individuals) in a total ...