Concordant association of lipid gene variation with a combined HDL/LDL-cholesterol phenotype in two European populations

Human Heredity

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 123-131

  Bauerfeind, Anja ^a   Knoblauch, Hans ^b,d   Costanza, Michael C ^c   Luganskaja, Tatjana ^a   Toliat, Mohammad R ^e   Nürnberg, Peter ^e   Luft, Friedrich C ^b   Reich, Jens G ^a   Morabia, Alfredo ^c  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b FRANZ VOLHARD CLINIC   (Germany)

^c GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^d VIVANTES KLINIKUM AM URBAN   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Complex polygenic trait; Genotype phenotype association; HDL cholesterol; LDL cholesterol; Lipids; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN A1; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CHOLESTEROL ESTER TRANSFER PROTEIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE STEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE;

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HUMAN; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOLESTEROL ESTER TRANSFER PROTEINS; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GERMANY; GLYCOPROTEINS; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOSPHOLIPID TRANSFER PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, LDL; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 33748640581     PISSN: 00015652     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000093773     Document Type: Article

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