Cladistic analysis of human apolipoprotein A4 polymorphisms in relation to quantitative plasma lipid risk factors of coronary heart disease

Annals of Human Genetics

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 107-124

  Wang, G Q ^a   DiPietro, M ^b   Roeder, K ^b   Heng, C K ^c   Bunker, C H ^a   Hamman, R F ^d   Kamboh, M Ilyas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Apolipoprotein A4; Blacks; Hispanics; Lipid profile; Polymorphisms; Whites

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A4; APOLIPOPROTEIN A; APOLIPOPROTEIN A-IV;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CAUCASIAN; CLADISTICS; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LIPID METABOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; NIGERIA; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; AGE; ALLELE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; VARIABLE NUMBER OF TANDEM REPEAT;

INSERTION SEQUENCES; PIERINAE;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGE FACTORS; ALLELES; APOLIPOPROTEINS A; CODON; CORONARY DISEASE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0141924149     PISSN: 00034800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1469-1809.2003.00023.x     Document Type: Article

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