Robust associations of four new chromosome regions from genome-wide analyses of type 1 diabetes

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 857-864

  Todd, John A ^a   Walker, Neil M ^a   Cooper, Jason D ^a   Smyth, Deborah J ^a   Downes, Kate ^a   Plagnol, Vincent ^a   Bailey, Rebecca ^a   Nejentsev, Sergey ^a   Field, Sarah F ^a   Payne, Felicity ^a   Lowe, Christopher E ^a   Szeszko, Jeffrey S ^a   Hafler, Jason P ^a   Zeitels, Lauren ^a   Yang, Jennie H M ^a   Vella, Adrian ^a,f   Nutland, Sarah ^a   Stevens, Helen E ^a   Schuilenburg, Helen ^a   Coleman, Gillian ^a   Maisuria, Meeta ^a   Meadows, William ^a   Smink, Luc J ^a   Healy, Barry ^a   Burren, Oliver S ^a   Lam, Alex A C ^a   Ovington, Nigel R ^a   Allen, James ^a   Adlem, Ellen ^a   Leung, Hin Tak ^a   Wallace, Chris ^b   Howson, Joanna M M ^a   Guja, Cristian ^c   Ionescu Tîrgovişte, Constantin ^c   Simmonds, Matthew J ^d   Heward, Joanne M ^d   Gough, Stephen C L ^d   Dunger, David B ^e   Wicker, Linda S ^a   Clayton, David G ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Inst Diabet   (Romania)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^f MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCUS; GENOME ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THYROID DISEASE;

EID: 34347341846     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng2068     Document Type: Article

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