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GeneticDeterminantsofHeightGrowthAssessed
LongitudinallyfromInfancytoAdulthoodinthe
NorthernFinlandBirthCohort1966
UllaSovio1,AmandaJ.Bennett2,IonaY.Millwood1,JohnMolitor1,PaulF.O’Reilly1,NicholasJ.
Timpson3,4,MarikaKaakinen5,6,JaanaLaitinen7,JariHaukka8,9,DemetrisPillas1,IoannaTzoulaki1,Jassy
Molitor1,CliveHoggart1,LachlanJ.M.Coin1,JohnWhittaker10,AnneliPouta11,Anna-Liisa
Hartikainen12,NelsonB.Freimer13,14,15,ElisabethWiden16,LeenaPeltonen17,18,19,PaulElliott1,MarkI.
McCarthy2,3,20,Marjo-RiittaJarvelin1,5,6,11,*
1DepartmentofEpidemiologyandPublicHealth,ImperialCollegeLondon,London,UnitedKingdom,2OxfordCentreforDiabetes,EndocrinologyandMetabolism,
UniversityofOxford,Oxford,UnitedKingdom,3WellcomeTrustCentreforHumanGenetics,UniversityofOxford,Oxford,UnitedKingdom,4TheMRCCentreforCausal
AnalysesinTranslationalEpidemiology,BristolUniversity,Bristol,UnitedKingdom,5InstituteofHealthSciences,UniversityofOulu,Oulu,Finland,6BiocenterOulu,
UniversityofOulu,Oulu,Finland,7FinnishInstituteofOccupationalHealth,Oulu,Finland,8NationalPublicHealthInstitute,Helsinki,Finland,9Biostatisticsand
EpidemiologyCluster,InternationalAgencyforResearchonCancer,Lyon,France,10LondonSchoolofHygieneandTropicalMedicine,UniversityofLondon,London,
UnitedKingdom,11DepartmentofChildandAdolescentHealth,NationalPublicHealthInstitute,Oulu,Finland,12DepartmentofClinicalSciences/Obstetricsand
Gynecology,UniversityofOulu,Oulu,Finland,13CenterforNeurobehavioralGenetics,UniversityofCaliforniaLosAngeles,LosAngeles,California,UnitedStatesof
America,14TheJaneandTerrySemelInstituteforNeuroscienceandHumanBehavior,UniversityofCaliforniaLosAngeles,LosAngeles,California,UnitedStatesof
America,15DepartmentofPsychiatry,UniversityofCaliforniaLosAngeles,LosAngeles,California,UnitedStatesofAmerica,16FinnishGenomeCenter,Universityof
Helsinki,Helsinki,Finland,17InstituteforMolecularMedicine(FIMM),UniversityofHelsinki,Helsinki,Finland,18BroadInstituteofHarvardandMIT,Cambridge,
Massachusetts,UnitedStatesofAmerica,19WellcomeTrustSangerInstitute,Cambridge,UnitedKingdom,20OxfordNIHRBiomedicalResearchCentre,Churchill
Hospital,Oxford,UnitedKingdom
Abstract
Recentgenome-wideassociation(GWA)studieshaveidentifieddozensofcommonvariantsassociatedwithadultheight.
However,itisunknownhowthesevariantsinfluenceheightgrowthduringchildhood.Wederivedpeakheightvelocityin
infancy(PHV1)andpuberty(PHV2)andtimingofpubertalheightgrowthspurtfromparametricgrowthcurvesfittedto
longitudinalheightgrowthdatatotesttheirassociationwithknownheightvariants.ThestudyconsistedofN=3,538
singletonsfromtheprospectiveNorthernFinlandBirthCohort1966withgenotypedataandfrequentheightmeasurements
(onaverage20measurementsperperson)from0–20years.Twenty-sixofthe48variantstestedassociatedwithadult
height(p,0.05,adjustedforsexandprincipalcomponents)inthissample,allinthesamedirectionasinpreviousGWA
scans.SevenSNPsinornearthegenesHHIP,DLEU7,UQCC,SF3B4/SV2A,LCORL,andHIST1H1DassociatedwithPHV1andfive
SNPsinornearSOCS2,SF3B4/SV2A,C17orf67,CABLES1,andDOT1LwithPHV2(p,0.05).Weformallytestedvariantsfor
interactionwithage(infancyversuspuberty)andfoundbiologicallymeaningfulevidenceforanage-dependenteffectfor
theSNPinSOCS2(p=0.0030)andfortheSNPinHHIP(p=0.045).Wedidnothavesimilarpriorevidencefortheassociation
betweenheightvariantsandtimingofpubertalheightgrowthspurtaswehadforPHVs,andnoneoftheassociationswere
statisticallysignificantaftercorrectionformultipletesting.Thefactthatinthissample,lessthanhalfofthevariants
associatedwithadultheighthadameasurableeffectonPHV1orPHV2islikelytoreflectlimitedpowertodetectthese
associationsinthisdataset.Ourstudyisthefirstgeneticassociationanalysisonlongitudinalheightgrowthinaprospective
cohortfrombirthtoadulthoodandgivesgroundingforfutureresearchonthegeneticregulationofhumanheightduring
differentperiodsofgrowth.
Citation:SovioU,BennettAJ,MillwoodIY,MolitorJ,O’ReillyPF,etal.(2009)GeneticDeterminantsofHeightGrowthAssessedLongitudinallyfromInfancyto
AdulthoodintheNorthernFinlandBirthCohort1966.PLoSGenet5(3):e1000409.doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1000409
Editor:GregGibson,TheUniversityofQueensland,Australia
ReceivedSeptember26,2008;AcceptedFebruary5,2009;PublishedMarch6,2009
Copyright:ß2009Sovioetal.Thisisanopen-accessarticledistributedunderthetermsoftheCreativeCommonsAttributionLicense,whichpermits
unrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalauthorandsourcearecredited.
Funding:FinancialsupportwasreceivedfromtheAcademyofFinland(projectgrants104781,120315andCenterofExcellenceinComplexDiseaseGenetics),
UniversityHospitalOulu,Biocenter,UniversityofOulu,Finland,NHLBIgrant5R01HL087679-02throughtheSTAMPEEDprogram(1RL1MH083268-01),ENGAGE