Combined Association and Linkage Analysis Applied to the APOE Locus

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 328-337

  Beekman, Marian ^a,g   Posthuma, Daniëlle ^b   Heijmans, Bastiaan T ^a   Lakenberg, Nico ^a   Suchiman, H Eka D ^a   Snieder, Harold ^c,d   De Knijff, Peter ^a   Frants, Rune R ^a   Van Ommen, Gert Jan B ^a   Kluft, Cornelis ^e   Vogler, George P ^f   Slagboom, P Eline ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^e TNO   (Netherlands)

^f PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ApoE level; Fine mapping; Quantitative trait locus; Twin pairs

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 19; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NETHERLANDS; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; APOLIPOPROTEIN E2; APOLIPOPROTEIN E3; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 19; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

GENETTA;

EID: 2342568899     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.10318     Document Type: Article

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