Genomewide Linkage Analysis of Stature in Multiple Populations Reveals Several Regions with Evidence of Linkage to Adult Height

The Future of Genetic Studies of Complex Human Diseases

1996 • 5,355 citations

Mapping mendelian factors underlying quantitative traits using RFLP linkage maps.

1989 • 5,285 citations

Multipoint Quantitative-Trait Linkage Analysis in General Pedigrees

1998 • 3,077 citations

Parametric and nonparametric linkage analysis: a unified multipoint approach.

1996 • 2,905 citations

Genomewide Search in Canadian Families with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Reveals Two Novel Susceptibility Loci

2000 • 508 citations

Automated construction of genetic linkage maps using an expert system (MultiMap): a human genome linkage map

1994 • 405 citations

Metabolic Consequences of a Family History of NIDDM (The Botnia Study): Evidence for Sex-Specific Parental Effects

1996 • 374 citations

Mapping of a gene for type 2 diabetes associated with an insulin secretion defect by a genome scan in Finnish families

1996 • 330 citations

Testing the Robustness of the Likelihood-Ratio Test in a Variance-Component Quantitative-Trait Loci–Mapping Procedure

1999 • 301 citations

ON THE LAWS OF INHERITANCE IN MAN: I. INHERITANCE OF PHYSICAL CHARACTERS

1903 • 289 citations

Height, body weight, and risk of prostate cancer.

1997 • 287 citations

Power of Linkage versus Association Analysis of Quantitative Traits, by Use of Variance-Components Models, for Sibship Data

2000 • 273 citations

Relative effect of genetic and environmental factors on body height: differences across birth cohorts among Finnish men and women

2000 • 225 citations

Meta‐analysis of genome searches

1999 • 209 citations

Birth weight and the future development of diabetes. A review of the evidence.

1998 • 147 citations

Exact Multipoint Quantitative-Trait Linkage Analysis in Pedigrees by Variance Components

2000 • 139 citations

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1972 • 127 citations

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1972 • 126 citations

A Cross-sectional Examination of Height, Weight, and Body Mass Index in Adult Twins

1995 • 123 citations

Collagen Iα1 Sp1 Polymorphism, Bone Mass, and Bone Turnover in Healthy French Premenopausal Women: The OFELY Study

1998 • 122 citations

Estrogen Receptor Gene Polymorphism, But Not Estradiol Levels, Is Related to Bone Density in Healthy Adolescent Boys: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study¹

1999 • 119 citations

On the Laws of Inheritance in Man: I. Inheritance of Physical Characters

1903 • 119 citations

Quantitative-Trait-Locus Analysis of Body-Mass Index and of Stature, by Combined Analysis of Genome Scans of Five Finnish Study Groups

2001 • 117 citations

Adult height and incidence of cancer in male physicians (United States).

1997 • 100 citations

A Gene Conferring Susceptibility to Type 2 Diabetes in Conjunction With Obesity Is Located on Chromosome 18p11

2001 • 98 citations

Are Children Born Small for Gestational Age at Increased Risk of Short Stature?

1993 • 97 citations

The Genetic Contribution to Stature

1996 • 88 citations

Short stature and coronary heart disease: a 35‐year follow‐up of the Finnish cohorts of The Seven Countries Study

2000 • 85 citations

Risk factors for hip fracture in US men aged 40 through 75 years.

1994 • 83 citations

Prediction of Male Adult Stature Using Anthropometric Data at Birth: A Nationwide Population-Based Study

1999 • 77 citations

Body Height and Hip Fracture: A Cohort Study of 90 000 Women

1995 • 75 citations

The role of luteinizing hormone-beta gene polymorphism in the onset and progression of puberty in healthy boys.

1996 • 71 citations

Estrogen Receptor Gene Polymorphism, But Not Estradiol Levels, Is Related to Bone Density in Healthy Adolescent Boys: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study

1999 • 65 citations

Quantitative Genetic Analysis of Longitudinal Trends in Height: Preliminary Results from the Louisville Twin Study

1990 • 64 citations

Difference in Height Associated with a Translation Start Site Polymorphism in the Vitamin D Receptor Gene1

1998 • 63 citations

Allelic variations of the D2 dopamine receptor gene in children with idiopathic short stature

1999 • 35 citations

Linkage between stature and a region on chromosome 20 and analysis of a candidate gene, bone morphogenetic protein 2

1995 • 30 citations

The Genetics of Type 2 Diabetes

2001 • 23 citations

Twin children in The Gambia: evidence for genetic regulation of physical characteristics in the presence of sub-optimal nutrition

1994 • 14 citations