Eleonora Porcu, Marco Medici, Giorgio Pistis, Claudia B Volpato, Scott G Wilson, Anne R Cappola, Steffan D Bos, Joris Deelen, Martin den Heijer, Rachel M Freathy, Jari Lahti, Chunyu Liu, Lorna M Lopez, Ilja M Nolte, Jeffrey R O'Connell, Toshiko Tanaka, Stella Trompet, Alice Arnold, Stefania Bandinelli, Marian Beekman, Stefan Böhringer, Suzanne J Brown, Brendan M Buckley, Clara Camaschella, Anton J M de Craen, Gail Davies, Marieke C H de Visser, Ian Ford, Tom Forsen, Timothy M Frayling, Laura Fugazzola, Martin Gögele, Andrew T Hattersley, Ad R Hermus, Albert Hofman, Jeanine J Houwing-Duistermaat, Richard A Jensen, Eero Kajantie, Margreet Kloppenburg, Ee M Lim, Corrado Masciullo, Stefano Mariotti, Cosetta Minelli, Braxton D Mitchell, Ramaiah Nagaraja, Romana T Netea-Maier, Aarno Palotie, Luca Persani, Maria G Piras, Bruce M Psaty, Katri Räikkönen, J Brent Richards, Fernando Rivadeneira, Cinzia Sala, Mona M Sabra, Naveed Sattar, Beverley M Shields, Nicole Soranzo, John M Starr, David J Stott, Fred C G J Sweep, Gianluca Usala, Melanie M van der Klauw, Diana van Heemst, Alies van Mullem, Sita H Vermeulen, W Edward Visser, John P Walsh, Rudi G J Westendorp, Elisabeth Widen, Guangju Zhai, Francesco Cucca, Ian J Deary, Johan G Eriksson, Luigi Ferrucci, Caroline S Fox, J Wouter Jukema, Lambertus A Kiemeney, Peter P Pramstaller, David Schlessinger, Alan R Shuldiner, Eline P Slagboom, André G Uitterlinden, Bijay Vaidya, Theo J Visser, Bruce H R Wolffenbuttel, Ingrid Meulenbelt, Jerome I Rotter, Tim D Spector, Andrew A Hicks, Daniela Toniolo, Serena Sanna, Robin P Peeters, Silvia Naitza
Thyroid hormone is essential for normal metabolism and development, and overt abnormalities in thyroid function lead to common endocrine disorders affecting approximately 10% of individuals over their life span. In addition, even mild alterations in thyroid function are associated with weight changes, atrial fibrillation, osteoporosis, and psychiatric disorders. To identify novel variants underlying thyroid function, we performed a large meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for serum levels of the highly heritable thyroid function markers TSH and FT4, in up to 26,420 and 17,520 euthyroid subjects, respectively...
2013: PLoS Genetics