• Common variants show predicted polygenic effects on height in the tails of the distribution, except in extremely short individuals 

      Chan, Y; Holmen, Oddgeir; Dauber, A; Vatten, Lars Johan; Havulinna, AS; Skorpen, Frank; Kvaløy, Kirsti; Silander, K; Nguyen, Thutrang T; Willer, C; Boehnke, M; Perola, M; Palotie, A; Salomaa, V; Hveem, Kristian; Frayling, TM; Hirschhorn, JN; Weedon, MN (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
      Common genetic variants have been shown to explain a fraction of the inherited variation for many common diseases and quantitative traits, including height, a classic polygenic trait. The extent to which common variation ...
    • Data harmonization and federated analysis of population-based studies: the BioSHaRE project 

      Doiron, Dany; Burton, Paul; Marcon, Y; Gaye, Abibou; Wolffenbuttel, BHR; Perola, M; Stolk, RP; Foco, L; Minelli, C; Walderberger, M; Holle, R; Kvaløy, Kirsti; Hillege, Hans L.; Tasse, A-M; Ferretti, V; Fortier, I (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)
      Background Individual-level data pooling of large population-based studies across research centres in international research projects faces many hurdles. The BioSHaRE (Biobank Standardisation and Harmonisation for Research ...