Scott D Gordon, David L Duffy, David C Whiteman, Catherine M Olsen, Kerrie McAloney, Jessica M Adsett, Natalie A Garden, Simone M Cross, Susan E List-Armitage, Joy Brown, Jeffrey J Beck, Hamdi Mbarek, Sarah E Medland, Grant W Montgomery, Nicholas G Martin
Female fertility is a complex trait with age-specific changes in spontaneous dizygotic (DZ) twinning and fertility. To elucidate factors regulating female fertility and infertility, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) on mothers of spontaneous DZ twins (MoDZT) versus controls (3273 cases, 24,009 controls). This is a follow-up study to the Australia/New Zealand (ANZ) component of that previously reported (Mbarek et al., 2016), with a sample size almost twice that of the entire discovery sample meta-analysed in the previous article (and five times the ANZ contribution to that), resulting from newly available additional genotyping and representing a significant increase in power...
November 23, 2023: Twin Research and Human Genetics: the Official Journal of the International Society for Twin Studies