#  The osteoarthritis and height GDF5 locus yields its secrets 

 





July 27, 2017

 

 

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In a new study, David Kingsley, Terence Capellini and colleagues combine elegant transgenic experiments in mice with population genetic analyses in humans to identify a *GDF5* enhancer that harbors a strong candidate causal SNP under positive selection.  
  
**Source:** Nature Genetics

**Author:** Guillaume Lettre

**Link:** [Full Text](https://www.nature.com/articles/ng.3924)



 

 

 



 

 

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