Browsing by Author "Norambuena, Tomás"

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    Correction to: Novel loci and mapuche genetic ancestry are associated with pubertal growth traits in Chilean boys (Human Genetics, (2021), 10.1007/s00439-021-02290-3)
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2021) Vicuña, Lucas; Norambuena, Tomás; Miranda, José Patricio; Eyheramendy, Susana; Pereira, Ana; Mericq, Verónica; Ongaro, Linda; Montinaro, Francesco; Lorenzoni Santos, José Guillermo
    © 2021, Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.Several typos were introduced in the original article and they have been corrected. The original article has been revised.
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    New insights from GWAS on BMI-related growth traits in a longitudinal cohort of admixed children with Native American and European ancestry
    (CELL PRESS, 2023) Vicuña, Lucas; Barrientos, Esteban; Norambuena, Tomás; Alvares, Danilo; Gana Ansaldo, Juan Cristóbal; Leiva Yamaguchi, Valeria; Meza, Cristian; Lorenzoni Santos, José Guillermo; Mericq, Verónica; Pereira, Ana; Eyheramendy, Susana
    Body-mass index (BMI) is a hallmark of adiposity. In contrast with adulthood, the genetic architecture of BMI during childhood is poorly understood. The few genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on children have been performed almost exclusively in Europeans and at single ages. We performed cross-sectional and longitudinal GWAS for BMI-related traits on 904 admixed children with mostly Mapuche Native American and European ancestries. We found regulatory variants of the immune gene HLA-DQB3 strongly associated with BMI at 1.5 - 2.5 years old. A variant in the sex-determining gene DMRT1 was associated with the age at adiposity rebound (Age-AR) in girls (P = 9.8 x 10(-9)). BMI was significantly higher in Mapuche than in Europeans between 5.5 and 16.5 years old. Finally, Age-AR was significantly lower (P = 0.004) by 1.94 years and BMI at AR was significantly higher (P = 0.04) by 1.2 kg/m(2), in Mapuche children compared with Europeans.