Genome-Wide Association Study Reveals Multiple Loci Influencing Normal Human Facial Morphology

John R Shaffer, Ekaterina Orlova, Myoung Keun Lee, Elizabeth J Leslie, Zachary D Raffensperger, Carrie L Heike, Michael L Cunningham, Jacqueline T Hecht, Chung How Kau, Nichole L Nidey, Lina M Moreno, George L Wehby, Jeffrey C Murray, Cecelia A Laurie, Cathy C Laurie, Joanne Cole, Tracey Ferrara, Stephanie Santorico, Ophir Klein, Washington Mio, Eleanor Feingold, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Richard A Spritz, Mary L Marazita and Seth M Weinberg

PLOS Genetics, 2016, vol. 12, issue 8, 1-21

Abstract: Numerous lines of evidence point to a genetic basis for facial morphology in humans, yet little is known about how specific genetic variants relate to the phenotypic expression of many common facial features. We conducted genome-wide association meta-analyses of 20 quantitative facial measurements derived from the 3D surface images of 3118 healthy individuals of European ancestry belonging to two US cohorts. Analyses were performed on just under one million genotyped SNPs (Illumina OmniExpress+Exome v1.2 array) imputed to the 1000 Genomes reference panel (Phase 3). We observed genome-wide significant associations (p

Date: 2016
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