not strongly related to tooth eruption and there seemed to be little consistency in the direction of allelic effects for 180 height-associated SNPs across height and tooth eruption phenotypes. Likewise, the majority of genome-wide significant tooth eruption SNPs did not appear to be strongly related to height. The exceptions were SNPs in HMGA2 and BMP4, both which appear to have pleiotropic actions that have been discussed previously. Our results suggest that BMP4 is likely to contain novel height-associated variants and could also be followed up in this context.
