Association of the estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) gene with body height in adult males from two Swedish population cohorts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Dahlgren, Andreas ^a   Lundmark, Per ^a   Axelsson, Tomas ^a   Lind, Lars ^b   Syväven, Ann Christine ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR 1; ESR1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHROMOSOME 6Q; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; INTRON; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STANDING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SWEDEN; GENETICS; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY HEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 46349097038     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001807     Document Type: Article

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