A genome-wide association study identifies five loci influencing facial morphology in Europeans. by Fan Liu, Fan Liu, Fedde van der Lijn, Claudia Schurmann, Gu Zhu, M Mallar Chakravarty, Pirro G Hysi, Andreas Wollstein, Oscar Lao, Marleen de Bruijne, M Arfan Ikram, Aad van der Lugt, Fernando Rivadeneira, André G Uitterlinden, Albert Hofman, Wiro J Niessen, Georg Homuth, Greig de Zubicaray, Katie L McMahon, Paul M Thompson, Amro Daboul, Ralf Puls, Katrin Hegenscheid, Liisa Bevan, Zdenka Pausova, Sarah E Medland, Grant W Montgomery, Margaret J Wright, Carol Wicking, Stefan Boehringer, Timothy D Spector, Tomáš Paus, Nicholas G Martin, Reiner Biffar, Manfred Kayser

“…We therefore conducted a genome-wide association study for facial shape phenotypes in multiple discovery and replication cohorts, considering almost ten thousand individuals of European descent from several countries. …”
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