Muscling in on the genetics of quantitative disease traits

Journal of Applied Physiology

Volumn 103, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1111-1112

  Franks, Paul W ^a  

^a UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR MARKER;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY COMPOSITION; BONE DENSITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE REGENERATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MUSCULAR DISEASES; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE;

EID: 35349017328     PISSN: 87507587     EISSN: 15221601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.00827.2007     Document Type: Editorial

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