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Both rare and common variants contribute to the aetiology of complex traits such as type 2 diabetes (T2D). Here, the authors examine the effect of coding variation on glycaemic traits and T2D, and identify low-frequency variation in GLP1R significantly associated with these traits.
Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms6897
Authors: Jennifer Wessel, Audrey Y Chu, Sara M Willems, Shuai Wang, Hanieh Yaghootkar, Jennifer A Brody, Marco Dauriz, Marie-France Hivert, Sridharan Raghavan, Leonard Lipovich, Bertha Hidalgo, Keolu Fox, Jennifer E Huffman, Ping An, Yingchang Lu, Laura J Rasmussen-Torvik, Niels Grarup, Margaret G Ehm, Li Li, Abigail S Baldridge, Alena Stančáková, Ravinder Abrol, Céline Besse, Anne Boland, Jette Bork-Jensen, Myriam Fornage, Daniel F Freitag, Melissa E Garcia, Xiuqing Guo, Kazuo Hara, Aaron Isaacs, Johanna Jakobsdottir, Leslie A Lange, Jill C Layton, Man Li, Jing Hua Zhao, Karina Meidtner, Alanna C Morrison, Mike A Nalls, Marjolein J Peters, Maria Sabater-Lleal, Claudia Schurmann, Angela Silveira, Albert V Smith, Lorraine Southam, Marcus H Stoiber, Rona J Strawbridge, Kent D Taylor, Tibor V Varga, Kristine H Allin, Najaf Amin, Jennifer L Aponte, Tin Aung, Caterina Barbieri, Nathan A Bihlmeyer, Michael Boehnke, Cristina Bombieri, Donald W Bowden, Sean M Burns, Yuning Chen, Yii-DerI Chen, Ching-Yu Cheng, Adolfo Correa, Jacek Czajkowski, Abbas Dehghan, Georg B Ehret, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Stefan A Escher, Aliki-Eleni Farmaki, Mattias Frånberg, Giovanni Gambaro, Franco Giulianini, William A Goddard, Anuj Goel, Omri Gottesman, Megan L Grove, Stefan Gustafsson, Yang Hai, Göran Hallmans, Jiyoung Heo, Per Hoffmann, Mohammad K Ikram, Richard A Jensen, Marit E Jørgensen, Torben Jørgensen, Maria Karaleftheri, Chiea C Khor, Andrea Kirkpatrick, Aldi T Kraja, Johanna Kuusisto, Ethan M Lange, I T Lee, Wen-Jane Lee, Aaron Leong, Jiemin Liao, Chunyu Liu, Yongmei Liu, Cecilia M Lindgren, Allan Linneberg, Giovanni Malerba, Vasiliki Mamakou, Eirini Marouli, Nisa M Maruthur, Angela Matchan, Roberta McKean-Cowdin, Olga McLeod, Ginger A Metcalf, Karen L Mohlke, Donna M Muzny, Ioanna Ntalla, Nicholette D Palmer, Dorota Pasko, Andreas Peter, Nigel W Rayner, Frida Renström, Ken Rice, Cinzia F Sala, Bengt Sennblad, Ioannis Serafetinidis, Jennifer A Smith, Nicole Soranzo, Elizabeth K Speliotes, Eli A Stahl, Kathleen Stirrups, Nikos Tentolouris, Anastasia Thanopoulou, Mina Torres, Michela Traglia, Emmanouil Tsafantakis, Sundas Javad, Lisa R Yanek, Eleni Zengini, Diane M Becker, Joshua C Bis, James B Brown, L Adrienne Cupples, Torben Hansen, Erik Ingelsson, Andrew J Karter, Carlos Lorenzo, Rasika A Mathias, Jill M Norris, Gina M Peloso, Wayne H.-H. Sheu, Daniela Toniolo, Dhananjay Vaidya, Rohit Varma, Lynne E Wagenknecht, Heiner Boeing, Erwin P Bottinger, George Dedoussis, Panos Deloukas, Ele Ferrannini, Oscar H Franco, Paul W Franks, Richard A Gibbs, Vilmundur Gudnason, Anders Hamsten, Tamara B Harris, Andrew T Hattersley, Caroline Hayward, Albert Hofman, Jan-Håkan Jansson, Claudia Langenberg, Lenore J Launer, Daniel Levy, Ben A Oostra, Christopher J O’Donnell, Stephen O’Rahilly, Sandosh Padmanabhan, James S Pankow, Ozren Polasek, Michael A Province, Stephen S Rich, Paul M Ridker, Igor Rudan, Matthias B Schulze, Blair H Smith, André G Uitterlinden, Mark Walker, Hugh Watkins, Tien Y Wong, Eleftheria Zeggini, Markku Laakso, Ingrid B Borecki, Daniel I Chasman, Oluf Pedersen, Bruce M Psaty, E Shyong Tai, Cornelia M van Duijn, Nicholas J Wareham, Dawn M Waterworth, Eric Boerwinkle, W H Linda Kao, Jose C Florez, Ruth J.F. Loos, James G Wilson, Timothy M Frayling, David S Siscovick, Josée Dupuis, Jerome I Rotter, James B Meigs, Robert A Scott, Mark O Goodarzi