Ethnic differences in the linkage disequilibrium and distribution of single-nucleotide polymorphisms in 35 candidate genes for cardiovascular diseases

Genomics

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 559-565

  Ng, Maggie C Y ^a   Wang, Ying ^a   So, Wing Yee ^a   Cheng, Suzanne ^b   Visvikis, Sophie ^c   Zee, Robert Y L ^d   Fernandez Cruz, Arturo ^e   Lindpaintner, Klaus ^f   Chan, Juliana C N ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b ROCHE MOLECULAR SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c Centre de Medecine Preventive   (France)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^f F HOFFMANN LA ROCHE LTD   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Allele frequency; Chinese; Coding single nucleotide polymorphism; cSNP; Ethnicity; European; LD; Linkage disequilibrium; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CHINESE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPE; FRANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPAIN;

ALLELES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHINA; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 1542404526     PISSN: 08887543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygeno.2003.09.008     Document Type: Article

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