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Norihiro</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">He, Jiang</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tai, E Shyong</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Said, M Abdullah</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Porteous, David</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alver, Maris</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Poulter, Neil</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Farrall, Martin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Gansevoort, Ron T</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Padmanabhan, Sandosh</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Mägi, Reedik</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stanton, Alice</style></author><author><style 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size="100%">Howson, Joanna M M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tobin, Martin D</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Munroe, Patricia B</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ehret, Georg B</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wain, Louise V</style></author></authors><translated-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Consortium of Blood Pressure (ICBP) 1000G Analyses</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">BIOS Consortium</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">LifeLines Cohort Study</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Understanding Society Scientific group</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">CHD Exome+ Consortium</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ExomeBP Consortium</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">T2D-Genes Consortium</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">GoT2DGenes Consortium</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cohorts for Heart and Ageing Research in Genome Epidemiology (CHARGE) BP Exome Consortium</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">International Genomics of Blood Pressure (iGEN-BP) Consortium</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">UK Biobank CardioMetabolic Consortium BP working group</style></author></translated-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genome-wide association analysis identifies novel blood pressure loci and offers biological insights into cardiovascular risk.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nat Genet</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Nat. Genet.</style></alt-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Adult</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Blood Pressure</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cardiovascular Diseases</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">European Continental Ancestry Group</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Female</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genetic Loci</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genetic Predisposition to Disease</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genome-Wide Association Study</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Humans</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hypertension</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Male</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Middle Aged</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide</style></keyword><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Risk Factors</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2017 Mar</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">49</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">403-415</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Elevated blood pressure is the leading heritable risk factor for cardiovascular disease worldwide. We report genetic association of blood pressure (systolic, diastolic, pulse pressure) among UK Biobank participants of European ancestry with independent replication in other cohorts, and robust validation of 107 independent loci. We also identify new independent variants at 11 previously reported blood pressure loci. In combination with results from a range of in silico functional analyses and wet bench experiments, our findings highlight new biological pathways for blood pressure regulation enriched for genes expressed in vascular tissues and identify potential therapeutic targets for hypertension. Results from genetic risk score models raise the possibility of a precision medicine approach through early lifestyle intervention to offset the impact of blood pressure-raising genetic variants on future cardiovascular disease risk.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">3</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28135244?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="7.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Cousminer, Diana L</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Stergiakouli, Evangelia</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Berry, Diane J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ang, Wei</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Groen-Blokhuis, Maria M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Körner, Antje</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Siitonen, Niina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ntalla, Ioanna</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Marinelli, Marcella</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Perry, John R B</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kettunen, Johannes</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Jansen, Rick</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Surakka, Ida</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Timpson, Nicholas J</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ring, Susan</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McMahon, George</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Power, Chris</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wang, Carol</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kähönen, Mika</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Viikari, Jorma</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Lehtimäki, Terho</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Middeldorp, Christel M</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hulshoff Pol, Hilleke E</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Neef, Madlen</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Weise, Sebastian</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pahkala, Katja</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Niinikoski, Harri</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Zeggini, Eleftheria</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Panoutsopoulou, Kalliope</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Bustamante, Mariona</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Penninx, Brenda W J H</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Murabito, Joanne</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Torrent, Maties</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Dedoussis, George V</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Kiess, Wieland</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Boomsma, Dorret I</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Pennell, Craig E</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Raitakari, Olli T</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hyppönen, Elina</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Davey Smith, George</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ripatti, Samuli</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">McCarthy, Mark I</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Widen, Elisabeth</style></author></authors><translated-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">ReproGen Consortium</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Early Growth Genetics Consortium</style></author></translated-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Genome-wide association study of sexual maturation in males and females highlights a role for body mass and menarche loci in male puberty.</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hum Mol Genet</style></secondary-title><alt-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Hum. Mol. Genet.</style></alt-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2014 Aug 15</style></date></pub-dates></dates><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">23</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4452-64</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">&lt;p&gt;Little is known about genes regulating male puberty. Further, while many identified pubertal timing variants associate with age at menarche, a late manifestation of puberty, and body mass, little is known about these variants' relationship to pubertal initiation or tempo. To address these questions, we performed genome-wide association meta-analysis in over 11 000 European samples with data on early pubertal traits, male genital and female breast development, measured by the Tanner scale. We report the first genome-wide significant locus for male sexual development upstream of myocardin-like 2 (MKL2) (P = 8.9 × 10(-9)), a menarche locus tagging a developmental pathway linking earlier puberty with reduced pubertal growth (P = 4.6 × 10(-5)) and short adult stature (p = 7.5 × 10(-6)) in both males and females. Furthermore, our results indicate that a proportion of menarche loci are important for pubertal initiation in both sexes. Consistent with epidemiological correlations between increased prepubertal body mass and earlier pubertal timing in girls, body mass index (BMI)-increasing alleles correlated with earlier breast development. In boys, some BMI-increasing alleles associated with earlier, and others with delayed, sexual development; these genetic results mimic the controversy in epidemiological studies, some of which show opposing correlations between prepubertal BMI and male puberty. Our results contribute to our understanding of the pubertal initiation program in both sexes and indicate that although mechanisms regulating pubertal onset in males and females may largely be shared, the relationship between body mass and pubertal timing in boys may be complex and requires further genetic studies.&lt;/p&gt;</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">16</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24770850?dopt=Abstract</style></custom1></record></records></xml>