Common variants of FUT2 are associated with plasma vitamin B12 levels - Nature Genetics

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Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Epidemiology, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

   Aditi Hazra, Peter Kraft & David J Hunter

2. Department of Medicine, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 181 Longwood Avenue, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

   Aditi Hazra, Edward L Giovannucci & David J Hunter

3. Jean Mayer US Department of Agriculture Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Vitamin Metabolism and Aging Laboratory, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, 02111, USA

   Jacob Selhub

4. Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

   Edward L Giovannucci & David J Hunter

5. Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), National Cancer Institute(NCI), US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, 20892, Maryland, USA

   Gilles Thomas, Robert N Hoover, Stephen J Chanock & David J Hunter

6. Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, 02142, Massachusetts, USA

   David J Hunter

Contributions

This study is a joint effort of the Nurses' Health Study investigators (A.H., P.K., E.L.G. and D.J.H.) and Cancer Genetics Markers of Susceptibility study investigators (G.T., R.N.H., S.J.C. and D.J.H.). A.H. and D.J.H. designed the study; J.S. measured the plasma vitamin B₁₂ and homocysteine levels; A.H. performed the analyses; P.K. supervised the statistical analyses; A.H. wrote the manuscript and prepared the tables, figures and supplementary material, with input from all co-authors.

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Correspondence to David J Hunter.

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Hazra, A., Kraft, P., Selhub, J. et al. Common variants of FUT2 are associated with plasma vitamin B₁₂ levels. Nat Genet 40, 1160–1162 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.210

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• Received: 18 March 2008

• Accepted: 26 June 2008

• Published: 07 September 2008

• Issue Date: October 2008

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ng.210