Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

Heritability estimates for 361 blood metabolites across 40 genome-wide association studies

  • Fiona A. Hagenbeek,
  • René Pool,
  • Jenny van Dongen,
  • Harmen H. M. Draisma,
  • Jouke Jan Hottenga,
  • Gonneke Willemsen,
  • Abdel Abdellaoui,
  • Iryna O. Fedko,
  • Anouk den Braber,
  • Pieter Jelle Visser,
  • Eco J. C. N. de Geus,
  • Ko Willems van Dijk,
  • Aswin Verhoeven,
  • H. Eka Suchiman,
  • Marian Beekman,
  • P. Eline Slagboom,
  • Cornelia M. van Duijn,
  • BBMRI Metabolomics Consortium,
  • Amy C. Harms,
  • Thomas Hankemeier,
  • Meike Bartels,
  • Michel G. Nivard,
  • Dorret I. Boomsma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13770-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Blood metabolite levels are under the influence of environmental and genetic factors. Here, Hagenbeek et al. perform heritability estimations for metabolite measures and determine the contribution of known metabolite loci to metabolite levels using data from 40 genome-wide association studies.