Japanese GWAS identifies variants for bust-size, dysmenorrhea, and menstrual fever that are eQTLs for relevant protein-coding or long non-coding RNAs

Abstract Traits related to primary and secondary sexual characteristics greatly impact females during puberty and day-to-day adult life. Therefore, we performed a GWAS analysis of 11,348 Japanese female volunteers and 22 gynecology-related phenotypic variables, and identified significant association...

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Main Authors: Tetsuya Hirata, Kaori Koga, Todd A. Johnson, Ryoko Morino, Kazuyuki Nakazono, Shigeo Kamitsuji, Masanori Akita, Maiko Kawajiri, Azusa Kami, Yuria Hoshi, Asami Tada, Kenichi Ishikawa, Maaya Hine, Miki Kobayashi, Nami Kurume, Tomoyuki Fujii, Naoyuki Kamatani, Yutaka Osuga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2018-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25065-9