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Genomic analyses identify hundreds of variants associated with age at menarche and support a role for puberty timing in cancer risk

  • Felix R. Day
  • , Deborah J. Thompson
  • , Hannes Helgason
  • , Daniel I. Chasman
  • , Hilary Finucane
  • , Patrick Sulem
  • , Katherine S. Ruth
  • , Sean Whalen
  • , Abhishek K. Sarkar
  • , Eva Albrecht
  • , Elisabeth Altmaier
  • , Marzyeh Amini
  • , Caterina M. Barbieri
  • , Thibaud Boutin
  • , Archie Campbell
  • , Ellen Demerath
  • , Ayush Giri
  • , Chunyan He
  • , Jouke J. Hottenga
  • , Robert Karlsson
  • Ivana Kolcic, Po Ru Loh, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Massimo Mangino, Brumat Marco, George McMahon, Sarah E. Medland, Ilja M. Nolte, Raymond Noordam, Teresa Nutile, Lavinia Paternoster, Natalia Perjakova, Eleonora Porcu, Lynda M. Rose, Katharina E. Schraut, Ayellet V. Segrè, Albert V. Smith, Lisette Stolk, Alexander Teumer, Irene L. Andrulis, Stefania Bandinelli, Matthias W. Beckmann, Javier Benitez, Sven Bergmann, Murielle Bochud, Eric Boerwinkle, Stig E. Bojesen, Manjeet K. Bolla, Judith S. Brand, Hiltrud Brauch, Hermann Brenner, Linda Broer, Thomas Brüning, Julie E. Buring, Harry Campbell, Eulalia Catamo, Stephen Chanock, Georgia Chenevix-Trench, Tanguy Corre, Fergus J. Couch, Diana L. Cousminer, Angela Cox, Laura Crisponi, Kamila Czene, George Davey Smith, Eco J.C.N. De Geus, Renée De Mutsert, Immaculata De Vivo, Joe Dennis, Peter Devilee, Isabel Dos-Santos-Silva, Alison M. Dunning, Johan G. Eriksson, Peter A. Fasching, Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Luigi Ferrucci, Dieter Flesch-Janys, Lude Franke, Marike Gabrielson, Ilaria Gandin, Graham G. Giles, Harald Grallert, Daniel F. Gudbjartsson, Pascal Guénel, Per Hall, Emily Hallberg, Ute Hamann, Tamara B. Harris, Catharina A. Hartman, Gerardo Heiss, Maartje J. Hooning, John L. Hopper, Frank Hu, David J. Hunter, M. Arfan Ikram, Hae Kyung Im, Marjo Riitta Järvelin, Peter K. Joshi, David Karasik, Manolis Kellis, Zoltan Kutalik, Genevieve Lachance, Diether Lambrechts, Claudia Langenberg, Lenore J. Launer, Joop S.E. Laven, Stefania Lenarduzzi, Jingmei Li, Penelope A. Lind, Sara Lindstrom, Yongmei Liu, Jian'An Luan, Reedik Mägi, Arto Mannermaa, Hamdi Mbarek, Mark I. McCarthy, Christa Meisinger, Thomas Meitinger, Cristina Menni, Andres Metspalu, Kyriaki Michailidou, Lili Milani, Roger L. Milne, Grant W. Montgomery, Anna M. Mulligan, Mike A. Nalls, Pau Navarro, Heli Nevanlinna, Dale R. Nyholt, Albertine J. Oldehinkel, Tracy A. O'Mara, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Aarno Palotie, Nancy Pedersen, Annette Peters, Julian Peto, Paul D.P. Pharoah, Anneli Pouta, Paolo Radice, Iffat Rahman, Susan M. Ring, Antonietta Robino, Frits R. Rosendaal, Igor Rudan, Rico Rueedi, Daniela Ruggiero, Cinzia F. Sala, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Robert A. Scott, Mitul Shah, Rossella Sorice, Melissa C. Southey, Ulla Sovio, Meir Stampfer, Maristella Steri, Konstantin Strauch, Toshiko Tanaka, Emmi Tikkanen, Nicholas J. Timpson, Michela Traglia, Thérèse Truong, Jonathan P. Tyrer, André G. Uitterlinden, Digna R.Velez Edwards, Veronique Vitart, Uwe Völker, Peter Vollenweider, Qin Wang, Elisabeth Widen, Ko Willems Van Dijk, Gonneke Willemsen, Robert Winqvist, Bruce H.R. Wolffenbuttel, Jing Hua Zhao, Magdalena Zoledziewska, Marek Zygmunt, Behrooz Z. Alizadeh, Dorret I. Boomsma, Marina Ciullo, Francesco Cucca, Tõnu Esko, Nora Franceschini, Christian Gieger, Vilmundur Gudnason, Caroline Hayward, Peter Kraft, Debbie A. Lawlor, Patrik K.E. Magnusson, Nicholas G. Martin, Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori, Ellen A. Nohr, Ozren Polasek, David Porteous, Alkes L. Price, Paul M. Ridker, Harold Snieder, Tim D. Spector, Doris Stöckl, Daniela Toniolo, Sheila Ulivi, Jenny A. Visser, Henry Völzke, Nicholas J. Wareham, James F. Wilson, Amanda B. Spurdle, Unnur Thorsteindottir, Katherine S. Pollard, Douglas F. Easton, Joyce Y. Tung, Jenny Chang-Claude, David Hinds, Anna Murray, Joanne M. Murabito, Kari Stefansson, Ken K. Ong, John R.B. Perry
  • University of Cambridge
  • deCODE Genetics
  • University of Iceland
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital
  • Harvard University
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • University of Exeter
  • Gladstone Institutes
  • Broad Institute
  • Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health
  • University of Groningen
  • Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
  • University of Edinburgh
  • University of Minnesota Twin Cities
  • Vanderbilt University
  • Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
  • Indiana University Bloomington
  • Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
  • Karolinska Institutet
  • University of Split
  • Boston University
  • The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study
  • King's College London
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Trieste
  • University of Bristol
  • Queensland Institute of Medical Research
  • Leiden University
  • National Research Council of Italy
  • Estonian Biocentre
  • Icelandic Heart Association
  • Erasmus University Rotterdam
  • University of Greifswald
  • University of Toronto
  • Azienda Sanitaria di Firenze
  • Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
  • Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas
  • Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red
  • Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics
  • University of Lausanne
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
  • University of Copenhagen
  • Robert Bosch Foundation
  • University of Tübingen
  • German Cancer Research Center
  • Ruhr University Bochum
  • IRCCS Ospedale Infantile Burlo Garofolo - Trieste
  • National Institutes of Health
  • Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
  • The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • University of Sheffield
  • London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
  • University of Helsinki
  • University of California at Los Angeles
  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  • University of Hamburg
  • Cancer Council Victoria
  • University of Melbourne
  • German Center for Diabetes Research
  • Environmental Epidemiology of Cancer, Inserm U1018
  • The University of Chicago
  • Imperial College London
  • University of Oulu
  • National Institute for Health and Welfare
  • Hebrew SeniorLife Institute for Aging Research
  • KU Leuven
  • Flanders Institute for Biotechnology
  • University of Washington
  • Wake Forest University
  • University of Eastern Finland
  • Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  • University of Oxford
  • Klinikum Augsburg
  • Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics
  • University of Queensland
  • University of Toronto
  • Helsinki University Hospital
  • Queensland University of Technology
  • Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
  • Wellcome Trust
  • IRCCS Fondazione Istituto Nazionale per lo studio e la cura dei tumori - Milano
  • Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Northern Finland Laboratory Centre NordLab
  • University of Sassari
  • University of Southern Denmark
  • University of California at San Francisco
  • 23andMe Inc.

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