Effects of genome-wide heterozygosity on a range of biomedically relevant human quantitative traits

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 233-241

  Campbell, Harry ^a   Carothers, Andrew D ^b   Rudan, Igor ^a,c   Hayward, Caroline ^b   Biloglav, Zrinka ^c   Barac, Lovorka ^d   Pericic, Marijana ^d   Janicijevic, Branka ^d   Smolej Narancic, Nina ^d   Polasek, Ozren ^a,c   Kolcic, Ivana ^c   Weber, James L ^e   Hastie, Nicholas D ^b   Rudan, Pavao ^d   Wright, Alan F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b WESTERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

^d INSTITUTE FOR ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Croatia)

^e MARSHFIELD CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CROATIA; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC RISK; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEIGHT; HETEROSIS; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INBREEDING; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LIFESPAN; MALE; MENARCHE; MIGRATION; OUTBREEDING; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; URBANIZATION; WEIGHT;

AGE FACTORS; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY HEIGHT; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; CROATIA; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE DETECTION; HUMANS; MALE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33846637323     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddl473     Document Type: Article

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