@article{d88d5b74f5a442b497519a2c1a0a224b,
title = "Common Genetic Variants Influence Whorls in Fingerprint Patterns",
author = "Yvonne Ho and David Evans and Grant Montgomery and Anjali Henders and John Kemp and Nicholas Timpson and \{St. Pourcain\}, Beate and Andrew Heath and Pamela Madden and Danuta Loesch and Dennis McNevin and Runa Daniel and George Davey-Smith and Nicholas Martin and Sarah Medland",
note = "Funding Information: QIMR: This work was funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC) , the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) , Visigen , Identitas Inc. , the Australian Federal Police Forensics , and the Victorian Police Forensic Services Centre . We are grateful to the families who participated in our studies, from the QIMR Brisbane Adolescent Twin Study, the adult twins in the QIMR SSAGA study, and the ALSPAC group in Bristol. We extend special thanks to the ALSPAC researchers for generating and sharing their genome-wide association results. ALSPAC: We are extremely grateful to all the families that took part in this study, the midwives for their help in recruiting the families, and the whole ALSPAC team, which includes interviewers, computer and laboratory technicians, clerical workers, research scientists, volunteers, managers, receptionists, and nurses. GWAS data were generated by Sample Logistics and Genotyping Facilities at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and LabCorp (Laboratory Corporation of America) using support from 23andMe. The UK Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust (grant reference 102215/2/13/2 ) and the University of Bristol provide core support for ALSPAC. This publication is the work of the authors, and DME will serve as guarantor for the contents of this paper. This work was supported by the Medical Research Council MC\_UU\_12013/4 to DME and MC\_UU\_12013/3 to NJT. DME is funded by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship ( FT130101709 ). In memory of Bodgan Mdzewski, who contributed significantly to counting QIMR fingerprint intensity scores. Study carried out in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, and Bristol, UK.",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1016/j.jid.2015.10.062",
language = "English",
volume = "136",
pages = "859--862",
journal = "Journal of Investigative Dermatology",
issn = "0022-202X",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "4",
}