Genetics meets metabolomics: A genome-wide association study of metabolite profiles in human serum

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2008, Pages

  Gieger, Christian ^a,b   Geistlinger, Ludwig ^a   Altmaier, Elisabeth ^a,b   De Angelis, Martin Hrabé ^a,c   Kronenberg, Florian ^d   Meitinger, Thomas ^a,e   Mewes, Hans Werner ^a,c   Wichmann, H Erich ^a,b   Weinberger, Klaus M ^f   Adamski, Jerzy ^a,c   Illig, Thomas ^a   Suhre, Karsten ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^f BIOCRATES LIFE SCIENCES AG   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLITE; METABOLOMICS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BLOOD; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PHENOTYPE;

ACYL COENZYME A DESATURASE; FADS1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; ORGANIC COMPOUND; PARKIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; PLASMA PROTEIN; PLATELET PROTEIN P47; UBIQUITIN PROTEIN LIGASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BLOOD PROTEINS; FATTY ACID DESATURASES; GENETICS; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; METABOLOMICS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PHENOTYPE; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; UBIQUITIN-PROTEIN LIGASES;

EID: 57149114936     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000282     Document Type: Article

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