A genome-wide association scan identifies the hepatic cholesterol transporter ABCG8 as a susceptibility factor for human gallstone disease

Nature Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 995-999

  Buch, Stephan ^a   Schafmayer, Clemens ^a   Völzke, Henry ^b   Becker, Christian ^c,d   Franke, Andre ^a   Von Eller Eberstein, Huberta ^a   Kluck, Christian ^c,d   Bässmann, Ingelore ^c,d   Brosch, Mario ^a   Lammert, Frank ^e   Miquel, Juan Francisco ^f   Nervi, Flavio ^f   Wittig, Michael ^a   Rosskopf, Dieter ^g   Timm, Birgit ^a   Höll, Christine ^a   Seeger, Marcus ^a   Elsharawy, Abdou ^a   Lu, Tim ^a   Egberts, Jan ^a   Fändrich, Fred ^a   Fölsch, Ulrich R ^a   Krawczak, Michael ^a   Schreiber, Stefan ^a   Nürnberg, Peter ^c,h   Tepel, Jürgen ^a   Hampe, Jochen ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d German Genome Resource Center RZPD   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BONN   (Germany)

^f PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^g UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCG8 PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILE; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHOLESTEROL TRANSPORT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMANY; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADULT; AGED; ATP-BINDING CASSETTE TRANSPORTERS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHOLESTEROL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 34547546458     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng2101     Document Type: Article

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