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Nature Genetics 39, 1245–1250 (1 October 2007) | doi:10.1038/ng2121

A common variant of HMGA2 is associated with adult and childhood height in the general population

Michael N Weedon , Guillaume Lettre , Rachel M Freathy , Cecilia M Lindgren , Benjamin F Voight , John R B Perry , Katherine S Elliott , Rachel Hackett , Candace Guiducci , Beverley Shields , Eleftheria Zeggini , Hana Lango , Valeriya Lyssenko , Nicholas J Timpson , Noel P Burtt , Nigel W Rayner , Richa Saxena , Kristin Ardlie , Jonathan H Tobias , Andrew R Ness , Susan M Ring , Colin N A Palmer , Andrew D Morris , Leena Peltonen , Veikko Salomaa , George Davey Smith , Leif C Groop , Andrew T Hattersley , Mark I McCarthy , Joel N Hirschhorn & Timothy M Frayling

Human height is a classic, highly heritable quantitative trait. To begin to identify genetic variants influencing height, we examined genome-wide association data from 4,921 individuals.