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John Blangero

Researcher at University of Texas at Austin

Publications -  826
Citations -  58072

John Blangero is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Quantitative trait locus & Population. The author has an hindex of 106, co-authored 782 publications receiving 51671 citations. Previous affiliations of John Blangero include Texas Biomedical Research Institute & Mayo Clinic.

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Multipoint Quantitative-Trait Linkage Analysis in General Pedigrees

TL;DR: It is shown how variance-component linkage methods can be used in pedigrees of arbitrary size and complexity, and a general framework for multipoint identity-by-descent (IBD) probability calculations is developed.

Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

Adam E. Locke, +481 more
TL;DR: This paper conducted a genome-wide association study and meta-analysis of body mass index (BMI), a measure commonly used to define obesity and assess adiposity, in up to 339,224 individuals.
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Defining the role of common variation in the genomic and biological architecture of adult human height

Andrew R. Wood, +444 more
- 01 Nov 2014 - 
TL;DR: This article identified 697 variants at genome-wide significance that together explained one-fifth of the heritability for adult height, and all common variants together captured 60% of heritability.
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A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants

Lars G. Fritsche, +185 more
- 01 Feb 2016 - 
TL;DR: The results support the hypothesis that rare coding variants can pinpoint causal genes within known genetic loci and illustrate that applying the approach systematically to detect new loci requires extremely large sample sizes.