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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Dec 14.
Published in final edited form as: Annu Rev Biomed Data Sci. 2023 May 17;6:339–356. doi: 10.1146/annurev-biodatasci-122220-113250

Figure 4.

Figure 4

The GIANT (Genetic Investigation of Anthropometric Traits) consortium of consortia is arguably the largest consortium to date. The current iteration of GIANT is a conglomeration of more than 200 distinct studies or cohorts, which, with the recent incorporation of data from 23andMe, Million Veteran Program (MVP), and UK Biobank, has increased in sample size to over 5.38 million participants. A genome-wide study with this sample size has identified more than 12,000 SNPs (single-nucleotide polymorphisms) associated with height (46). As GIANT continues to grow, we expect that other larger cohorts will also be incorporated in the future as it moves toward completing the genetic map for human height. Figure adapted from images created with BioRender.com.