Genetic Determinants of Serum Testosterone Concentrations in Men

Claes Ohlsson, Henri Wallaschofski, Kathryn L Lunetta, Lisette Stolk, John R B Perry, Annemarie Koster, Ann-Kristin Petersen, Joel Eriksson, Terho Lehtimäki, Ilpo T Huhtaniemi, Geoffrey L Hammond, Marcello Maggio, Andrea D Coviello, Study Group Emas, Luigi Ferrucci, Margit Heier, Albert Hofman, Kate L Holliday, John-Olov Jansson, Mika Kähönen, David Karasik, Magnus K Karlsson, Douglas P Kiel, Yongmei Liu, Östen Ljunggren, Mattias Lorentzon, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Thomas Meitinger, Dan Mellström, David Melzer, Iva Miljkovic, Matthias Nauck, Maria Nilsson, Brenda Penninx, Stephen R Pye, Ramachandran S Vasan, Martin Reincke, Fernando Rivadeneira, Abdelouahid Tajar, Alexander Teumer, André G Uitterlinden, Jagadish Ulloor, Jorma Viikari, Uwe Völker, Henry Völzke, H Erich Wichmann, Tsung-Sheng Wu, Wei Vivian Zhuang, Elad Ziv, Frederick C W Wu, Olli Raitakari, Anna Eriksson, Martin Bidlingmaier, Tamara B Harris, Anna Murray, Frank H de Jong, Joanne M Murabito, Shalender Bhasin, Liesbeth Vandenput and Robin Haring

PLOS Genetics, 2011, vol. 7, issue 10, 1-11

Abstract: Testosterone concentrations in men are associated with cardiovascular morbidity, osteoporosis, and mortality and are affected by age, smoking, and obesity. Because of serum testosterone's high heritability, we performed a meta-analysis of genome-wide association data in 8,938 men from seven cohorts and followed up the genome-wide significant findings in one in silico (n = 871) and two de novo replication cohorts (n = 4,620) to identify genetic loci significantly associated with serum testosterone concentration in men. All these loci were also associated with low serum testosterone concentration defined as

Date: 2011
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