Applying novel genome-wide linkage strategies to search for loci influencing type 2 diabetes and adult height in American Samoa

Human Biology

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 99-123

  Åberg, Karolina ^a   Sun, Guangyun ^b   Smelser, Diane ^b   Indugula, Subba Rao ^b   Tsai, Hui Ju ^c   Steele, Matthew S ^d   Tuitele, John ^e   Deka, Ranjan ^b   Mcgarvey, Stephen T ^f   Weeks, Daniel E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PATH   (United States)

^e Tafuna Family Health Center   (American Samoa)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Linkage analysis; QTL all software; Quantitative trait locus; Stature; Two dimensional linkage

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOME ANALYSIS; GLOMERULUS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PROTEINURIA; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SAMOA; SHORT STATURE;

ADULT; ALLELES; AMERICAN SAMOA; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY HEIGHT; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 48749100625     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/1534-6617(2008)80[99:ANGLST]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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