Aim:The aim of the study was to explore the parent-of-origin effects (POEs) on a range of human nuclear magnetic resonance metabolites. Materials & methods: We search for POEs in 14,815 unrelated individuals from Estonian and Finnish cohorts using POE method for the genotype data imputed with 1000 G reference panel and 82 nuclear magnetic resonance metabolites. Results: Meta-analysis revealed the evidence of POE for the variant rs1412727 in PTPRD gene for the metabolite: triglycerides in medium very low-density lipoprotein. No POEs were detected for genetic variants that were previously known to have main effect on circulating metabolites. Conclusion: We demonstrated possibility to detect POEs for human metabolites, but the POEs are weak, and therefore it is hard to detect those using currently available sample sizes. Circulating metabolites are intermediate products of metabolic processes that are known to participate in a wide spectrum of biological pathways and consequently associated with many diseases and pathological conditions [1]. In this context, metabolites could be used as a system-wide connection from genetic variants to disease-or phenotypic outcome. Therefore, identification of genetic variants associated with these molecules is an important task of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) [2][3][4][5][6]. The advances in proton nuclear magnetic resonance ( 1 H-NMR or shortened as NMR) spectroscopy provide a method for quantifying of a wide range of high and low molecular weight compounds without any prior selection [7]. To date, the NHGRI-EBI Catalog of published GWAS reports approximately 1529 genetic variants in 58 studies associated with different kind of metabolic phenotypes measured from diverse range of different tissue samples [8]. The most comprehensive GWAS of NMR metabolites to date was performed by Kettunen et al. where profiles of metabolic measures were analyzed in up to 25,000 individuals and 62 associations with various metabolites were described [9].Although GWAS have been more successful discovering genetic variants associated with human metabolites, there is still a large proportion of 'hidden heritability'. As a source of genetic variance, several analyses have been proposed, including those focusing on rare variants, structural variants, gene-gene and gene-environment interactions and parent-of-origin effects (POEs) [10,11]. POEs reflect a combination of genetic and epigenetic mechanisms, modulating different complex traits associated mainly with embryonic growth and development [12] and these effects have been described with many complex diseases such as diabetes mellitus, disglycemia and retinoblastoma [13][14][15]. In case of POEs, not only the presence of an allele, but also its parental origin affects the phenotypic outcome [16]. As an example, maternal allele-specific association of a common variant (rs1367117) located in the APOB gene was demonstrated in the analysis of adiposity [17] and borderline significant effect for fasting glucose and insulin levels [17]. This nonsy...