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• A genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 22 loci associated with eight hematological parameters in the HaemGen consortium.

  Soranzo N, Spector TD, Mangino M, Kühnel B, Rendon A, Teumer A, Willenborg C, Wright B, Chen L, Li M, Salo P, Voight BF, Burns P, Laskowski RA, Xue Y, Menzel S, Altshuler D, Bradley JR, Bumpstead S, Burnett MS, Devaney J, Döring A, Elosua R, Epstein SE, Erber W, Falchi M, Garner SF, Ghori MJ, Goodall AH, Gwilliam R, Hakonarson HH, Hall AS, Hammond N, Hengstenberg C, Illig T, König IR, Knouff CW, McPherson R, Melander O, Mooser V, Nauck M, Nieminen MS, O'Donnell CJ, Peltonen L, Potter SC, Prokisch H, Rader DJ, Rice CM, Roberts R, Salomaa V, Sambrook J, Schreiber S, Schunkert H, Schwartz SM, Serbanovic-Canic J, Sinisalo J, Siscovick DS, Stark K, Surakka I, Stephens J, Thompson JR, Völker U, Völzke H, Watkins NA, Wells GA, Wichmann HE, Van Heel DA, Tyler-Smith C, Thein SL, Kathiresan S, Perola M, Reilly MP, Stewart AF, Erdmann J, Samani NJ, Meisinger C, Greinacher A, Deloukas P, Ouwehand WH, Gieger C. Soranzo N, et al. Nat Genet. 2009 Nov;41(11):1182-90. doi: 10.1038/ng.467. Epub 2009 Oct 11. Nat Genet. 2009. PMID: 19820697 Free PMC article.
• Genome-wide association study identifies variants in TMPRSS6 associated with hemoglobin levels.

  Chambers JC, Zhang W, Li Y, Sehmi J, Wass MN, Zabaneh D, Hoggart C, Bayele H, McCarthy MI, Peltonen L, Freimer NB, Srai SK, Maxwell PH, Sternberg MJ, Ruokonen A, Abecasis G, Jarvelin MR, Scott J, Elliott P, Kooner JS. Chambers JC, et al. Nat Genet. 2009 Nov;41(11):1170-2. doi: 10.1038/ng.462. Epub 2009 Oct 11. Nat Genet. 2009. PMID: 19820698 Free PMC article.
• Common variants in TMPRSS6 are associated with iron status and erythrocyte volume.

  Benyamin B, Ferreira MA, Willemsen G, Gordon S, Middelberg RP, McEvoy BP, Hottenga JJ, Henders AK, Campbell MJ, Wallace L, Frazer IH, Heath AC, de Geus EJ, Nyholt DR, Visscher PM, Penninx BW, Boomsma DI, Martin NG, Montgomery GW, Whitfield JB. Benyamin B, et al. Nat Genet. 2009 Nov;41(11):1173-5. doi: 10.1038/ng.456. Epub 2009 Oct 11. Nat Genet. 2009. PMID: 19820699 Free PMC article.
• Multiple loci influence erythrocyte phenotypes in the CHARGE Consortium.

  Ganesh SK, Zakai NA, van Rooij FJ, Soranzo N, Smith AV, Nalls MA, Chen MH, Kottgen A, Glazer NL, Dehghan A, Kuhnel B, Aspelund T, Yang Q, Tanaka T, Jaffe A, Bis JC, Verwoert GC, Teumer A, Fox CS, Guralnik JM, Ehret GB, Rice K, Felix JF, Rendon A, Eiriksdottir G, Levy D, Patel KV, Boerwinkle E, Rotter JI, Hofman A, Sambrook JG, Hernandez DG, Zheng G, Bandinelli S, Singleton AB, Coresh J, Lumley T, Uitterlinden AG, Vangils JM, Launer LJ, Cupples LA, Oostra BA, Zwaginga JJ, Ouwehand WH, Thein SL, Meisinger C, Deloukas P, Nauck M, Spector TD, Gieger C, Gudnason V, van Duijn CM, Psaty BM, Ferrucci L, Chakravarti A, Greinacher A, O'Donnell CJ, Witteman JC, Furth S, Cushman M, Harris TB, Lin JP. Ganesh SK, et al. Nat Genet. 2009 Nov;41(11):1191-8. doi: 10.1038/ng.466. Epub 2009 Oct 11. Nat Genet. 2009. PMID: 19862010 Free PMC article.