Sixteen new genes for reproductive behavior in humans

1. November 2016

This work represents the first bona-fide genome-wide association study (GWAS) assessing reproductive behavior in humans, to which LIGA contributed the data from the Berlin Aging Study II. Overall, nearly 350,000 individuals were analyzed leading to the identification of 16 independent loci that are significantly associated with ‘age at first birth’ and/or ‘number of children ever born’. These identified loci harbor genes that are likely to have a role,in human reproduction and infertility. The study was published in the journal Nature Genetics.