Loci at chromosomes 13, 19 and 20 influence age at natural menopause (original) (raw)

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Acknowledgements

This study was funded by the European Commision (HEALTH-F2-2008-201865, GEFOS; HEALTH-F2-2008-35627, TREAT-OA), Netherlands Organisation of Scientific Research NWO Investments (nr. 175.010.2005.011, 911-03-012), Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (014-93-015; RIDE2) and the Netherlands Genomics Initiative (NGI)/Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) project nr. 050-060-810. We thank P. Arp, M. Jhamai, M. Moorhouse, M. Verkerk and S. Bervoets for their help in creating the GWAS-database. The Rotterdam Study is funded by Erasmus Medical Center and Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands Organization for the Health Research and Development (ZonMw), the Research Institute for Diseases in the Elderly (RIDE), the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, the Ministry for Health, Welfare and Sports, the European Commission (DG XII) and the Municipality of Rotterdam. TwinsUK is supported by the Wellcome Trust from the Department of Health via the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre award to Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with King's College London and King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The LASA study is largely funded by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports of The Netherlands. The PROSPECT-Frailty study was funded by The Netherlands Organization for Health Research and Development (ZON) no. 2100.0011.

We thank K. Lunetta for helpful discussion. The authors are very grateful to the study participants and staff from the Rotterdam Study and the TwinsUK, EPOS, PROSPECT-Frailty and LASA studies.

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  1. Lisette Stolk, Guangju Zhai, Tim D Spector and André G Uitterlinden: These authors contributed equally to this work.

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Departments of Internal Medicine, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Lisette Stolk, Joyce B J van Meurs, Michael M P J Verbiest, Jenny A Visser, Karol Estrada, Fernando Rivadeneira, Corinne E I Lebrun, Huibert A P Pols & André G Uitterlinden
  2. Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Lisette Stolk, Fernando Rivadeneira, Jacqueline Witteman, Albert Hofman & André G Uitterlinden
  3. The Netherlands Genomics Initiative–sponsored Netherlands Consortium for Healthy Aging (NGI-NCHA), Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Lisette Stolk, Joyce B J van Meurs, Jacqueline Witteman, Albert Hofman & André G Uitterlinden
  4. Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, King's College London, London, UK
    Guangju Zhai, Frances M Williams, Lynn Cherkas & Tim D Spector
  5. Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, UK
    Panos Deloukas & Nicole Soranzo
  6. Research Unit, Diagnostic Center Eindhoven, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
    Jules J de Keyzer
  7. Department of Clinical Health Psychology, University of Tilburg, Tilburg, The Netherlands
    Victor J M Pop
  8. Department of Internal Medicine, Endocrine Section, and EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    Paul Lips
  9. Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
    Corinne E I Lebrun, Yvonne T van der Schouw & Diederick E Grobbee
  10. Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    Joop S E Laven

Authors

  1. Lisette Stolk
  2. Guangju Zhai
  3. Joyce B J van Meurs
  4. Michael M P J Verbiest
  5. Jenny A Visser
  6. Karol Estrada
  7. Fernando Rivadeneira
  8. Frances M Williams
  9. Lynn Cherkas
  10. Panos Deloukas
  11. Nicole Soranzo
  12. Jules J de Keyzer
  13. Victor J M Pop
  14. Paul Lips
  15. Corinne E I Lebrun
  16. Yvonne T van der Schouw
  17. Diederick E Grobbee
  18. Jacqueline Witteman
  19. Albert Hofman
  20. Huibert A P Pols
  21. Joop S E Laven
  22. Tim D Spector
  23. André G Uitterlinden

Contributions

L.S., G.Z., T.D.S. and A.G.U. designed the study. L.S. and M.M.P.J.V. did the genotyping of the replication studies. P.D. and N.S. did the genotyping for the TwinsUK study. N.S. did the quality control for the TwinsUK data. L.S., G.Z., J.B.J.v.M. and K.E. did the statistical analyses. L.S., G.Z., J.B.J.v.M., J.A.V., F.R., J.S.E.L., T.D.S. and A.G.U. helped with the interpretation of the results. L.S., G.Z., J.B.J.v.M., J.A.V., F.R., T.D.S. and A.G.U. prepared the manuscript and the revision of the manuscript. F.M.W., A.H. and H.A.P.P. critically revised the manuscript. A.H., J.W., H.A.P.P. and A.G.U. were involved in the sample and phenotype collection of the Rotterdam Study. F.M.W. and L.C. were involved in the phenotype collection of the TwinsUK Study. J.J.d.K., V.J.M.P., P.L., C.E.I.L., Y.T.v.d.S. and D.E.G. were involved in the sample and data collection of the replication studies.

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L.S., G.Z., T.D.S. and A.G.U. are involved in a patent application based on the results of the work in this manuscript.

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Stolk, L., Zhai, G., van Meurs, J. et al. Loci at chromosomes 13, 19 and 20 influence age at natural menopause.Nat Genet 41, 645–647 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.387

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