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Stolk L, Perry JRB, Chasman DI, He C, Mangino M, Sulem P, Barbalic M, Broer L, Byrne EM, Ernst F, Esko T, Franceschini N, Gudbjartsson DF, Hottenga JJ, Kraft P, McArdle PF, Porcu E, Shin SY, Smith AV, van Wingerden S, Zhai G, Zhuang WV, Albrecht E, Alizadeh BZ, Aspelund T, Bandinelli S, Lauc LB, Beckmann JS, Boban M, Boerwinkle E, Broekmans FJ, Burri A, Campbell H, Chanock SJ, Chen C, Cornelis MC, Corre T, Coviello AD, d’Adamo P, Davies G, de Faire U, de Geus EJC, Deary IJ, Dedoussis GVZ, Deloukas P, Ebrahim S, Eiriksdottir G, Emilsson V, Eriksson JG, Fauser BCJM, Ferreli L, Ferrucci L, Fischer K, Folsom AR, Garcia ME, Gasparini P, Gieger C, Glazer N, Grobbee DE, Hall P, Haller T, Hankinson SE, Hass M, Hayward C, Heath AC, Hofman A, Ingelsson E, Janssens ACJW, Johnson AD, Karasik D, Kardia SLR, Keyzer J, Kiel DP, Kolcic I, Kutalik Z, Lahti J, Lai S, Laisk T, Laven JSE, Lawlor DA, Liu J, Lopez LM, Louwers YV, Magnusson PKE, Marongiu M, Martin NG, Klaric IM, Masciullo C, McKnight B, Medland SE, Melzer D, Mooser V, Navarro P, Newman AB, Nyholt DR, Onland-Moret NC, Palotie A, Paré G, Parker AN, Pedersen NL, Peeters PHM, Pistis G, Plump AS, Polasek O, Pop VJM, Psaty BM, Räikkönen K, Rehnberg E, Rotter JI, Rudan I, Sala C, Salumets A, Scuteri A, Singleton A, Smith JA, Snieder H, Soranzo N, Stacey SN, Starr JM, Stathopoulou MG, Stirrups K, Stolk RP, Styrkarsdottir U, Sun YV, Tenesa A, Thorand B, Toniolo D, Tryggvadottir L, Tsui K, Ulivi S, van Dam RM, van der Schouw YT, van Gils CH, van Nierop P, Vink JM, Visscher PM, Voorhuis M, Waeber G, Wallaschofski H, Wichmann HE, Widen E, Gent CJMWV, Willemsen G, Wilson JF, Wolffenbuttel BHR, Wright AF, Yerges-Armstrong LM, Zemunik T, Zgaga L, Zillikens MC, Zygmunt M, Arnold AM, Boomsma DI, Buring JE, Crisponi L, Demerath EW, Gudnason V, Harris TB, Hu FB, Hunter DJ, Launer LJ, Metspalu A, Montgomery GW, Oostra BA, Ridker PM, Sanna S, Schlessinger D, Spector TD, Stefansson K, Streeten EA, Thorsteinsdottir U, Uda M, Uitterlinden AG, van Duijn CM, Völzke H, Murray A, Murabito JM, Visser JA, Lunetta KL. Meta-analyses identify 13 loci associated with age at menopause and highlight DNA repair and immune pathways. Nat Genet 2012; 44:260-8. [PMID: 22267201 PMCID: PMC3288642 DOI: 10.1038/ng.1051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 263] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2011] [Accepted: 12/02/2011] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
Abstract
To newly identify loci for age at natural menopause, we carried out a meta-analysis of 22 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in 38,968 women of European descent, with replication in up to 14,435 women. In addition to four known loci, we identified 13 loci newly associated with age at natural menopause (at P < 5 × 10(-8)). Candidate genes located at these newly associated loci include genes implicated in DNA repair (EXO1, HELQ, UIMC1, FAM175A, FANCI, TLK1, POLG and PRIM1) and immune function (IL11, NLRP11 and PRRC2A (also known as BAT2)). Gene-set enrichment pathway analyses using the full GWAS data set identified exoDNase, NF-κB signaling and mitochondrial dysfunction as biological processes related to timing of menopause.
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Affiliation(s)
- Lisette Stolk
- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Netherlands Consortium of Healthy Aging, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, UK
- Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
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- Department of Public Health, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
- Melvin and Bren Simon Cancer Center, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
| | - Linda Broer
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
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- Interfakultäres Institut für Genomforschung, Universität Greifswald, Germany
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Estonian Biocenter, Tartu, Estonia
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Dept Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, USA
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cagliari, Italy
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, UK
- Discipline of Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston Massachusetts, USA
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Service of Medical Genetics, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- Human Genetics Center, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, UK
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Sections of General Internal Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA, USA
- NHLBI Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
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- Institute for Maternal and Child Health, IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo” Trieste, Italy
- University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Dept Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- EMGO+ Institute, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology & Population Healths, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Finland
- Department of General Practice and Primary Health Care, University of Helsinki, Finland
- Helsinki University Central Hospital, Unit of General Practice, Helsinki, Finland
- Folkhalsan Research Centre, Helsinki, Finland
- Vasa Central Hospital, Vasa, Finland
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- Department of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cagliari, Italy
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- Longitudinal Studies Section, Clinical Research Branch, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Institute for Maternal and Child Health, IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo” Trieste, Italy
- University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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- Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Sections of General Internal Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA, USA
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women.s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit at the Medical Research Council Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Netherlands Consortium of Healthy Aging, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- NHLBI Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Diagnostic GP laboratory Eindhoven, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
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- NHLBI Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
- Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland
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- Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cagliari, Italy
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
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- Division of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- MRC Centre for Causal Analysis in Translational Epidemiology, School of Social & Community Medicine, University of Bristol, UK
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- Human genetic, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore
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- Department of Psychology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Reproductive Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cagliari, Italy
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- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
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- Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, UK
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- Genetics Division, GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit at the Medical Research Council Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Departments of Epidemiology and Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Medical Genetics, University of Helsinki and University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- Genetic and Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON Canada
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- Amgen, Cambridge, MA USA
- Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge MA USA
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Cardiovascular Disease, Merck Research Laboratory, Rahway, NJ, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
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- Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, the Netherlands
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- Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA USA
- Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA USA
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- Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Split, Split, Croatia
- Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Competence Centre on Reproductive Medicine and Biology, Tartu, Estonia
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- Laboratory of Neurogenetics, National Institute of Ageing, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- LifeLines Cohort Study & Biobank, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, UK
- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Geriatric Medicine Unit, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece
- Cardiovascular Genetics Research Unit, EA4373, Université Henri Poincaré - Nancy 1, Nancy, France
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- Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- LifeLines Cohort Study & Biobank, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit at the Medical Research Council Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
- The Roslin Institute, Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies, University of Edinburgh, Roslin, UK
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- Institute of Epidemiology II, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
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- Division of Genetics and Cell Biology, San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan, Italy
- Institute of Molecular Genetics-CNR, Pavia, Italy
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- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Icelandic Cancer Registry, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Institute for Maternal and Child Health, IRCCS “Burlo Garofolo” Trieste, Italy
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- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health and Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Municipal Health Service Brabant-Zuidoost, Helmond, the Netherlands
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- Dept Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Genetic Epidemiology, Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Brisbane, Australia
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- Department of Reproductive Medicine and Gynaecology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
- Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University of Greifswald
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- Institute of Epidemiology I, Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health, Neuherberg, Germany
- Institute of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany
- Klinikum Grosshadern, Munich, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Finland
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- Dept Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
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- LifeLines Cohort Study & Biobank, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
- Department of Endocrinology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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- MRC Human Genetics Unit at the Medical Research Council Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
- Andrija Stampar School of Public Health, Medical School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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- Klinik für Gynäkologie und Geburtshilfe, Universität Greifswald, Germany
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- LifeLines Cohort Study & Biobank, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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- Dept Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- EMGO+ Institute, VU Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cagliari, Italy
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- Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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- Icelandic Heart Association, Kopavogur, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women.s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, USA
- Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women.s Hospital Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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- Laboratory of Epidemiology, Demography, and Biometry, National Institute on Aging, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
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- Estonian Genome Center, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Estonian Biocenter, Tartu, Estonia
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
- Competence Centre on Reproductive Medicine and Biology, Tartu, Estonia
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- Department of Clinical Genetics, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston USA
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA USA
- Division of Cardiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA USA
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cagliari, Italy
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- National Institute on Aging, Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD, USA
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- Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King’s College London, London, UK
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- deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
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- deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Cagliari, Italy
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Netherlands Consortium of Healthy Aging, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
- Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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- Institut für Community Medicine, Universität Greifswald, Germany
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- Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, UK
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- Sections of General Internal Medicine, Preventive Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston MA, USA
- NHLBI Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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- Department of Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston Massachusetts, USA
- NHLBI Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA
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