Genetic variation in LIN28B is associated with the timing of puberty

Nature Genetics

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 729-733

  Ong, Ken K ^a,b,c   Elks, Cathy E ^a,b   Li, Shengxu ^a,b   Zhao, Jing Hua ^a,b   Luan, Jian'An ^a,b   Andersen, Lars B ^d   Bingham, Sheila A ^e,f   Brage, Soren ^a,b   Smith, George Davey ^g   Ekelund, Ulf ^a,b,h   Gillson, Christopher J ^a,b   Glaser, Beate ^g   Golding, Jean ^g   Hardy, Rebecca ^a   Khaw, Kay Tee ⁱ   Kuh, Diana ^a   Luben, Robert ⁱ   Marcus, Michele ^j,k   McGeehin, Michael A ^k   Ness, Andrew R ^j   Northstone, Kate ^g   Ring, Susan M ^g   Rubin, Carol ^g   Sims, Matthew A ^j   Song, Kijoung ^a,b   Strachan, David P ^l   Vollenweider, Peter ^m   Waeber, Gerard ⁿ   Waterworth, Dawn M ⁿ   Wong, Andrew ^l   Deloukas, Panagiotis ^a   Barroso, Ins ^o   Mooser, Vincent ^o   Loos, Ruth J ^l   Wareham, Nicholas J ^a,b   more..

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^f MRC Centre for Nutritional Epidemiology in Cancer Prevention and Survival   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^h ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^j NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^k EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^m ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^o WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; LIN28B PROTEIN, HUMAN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CHROMOSOME 6; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAIR; HAIR GROWTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LIN28B GENE; MALE; MENARCHE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; PUBIC HAIR; QUALITY CONTROL; RNA PROCESSING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VOICE CHANGE; ADULT; BREAST; GENETICS; GENITAL SYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOTHER; PHYSIOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BODY HEIGHT; BREAST; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 6; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENITALIA; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MICRORNAS; MOTHERS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PUBERTY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 66649105485     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.382     Document Type: Article

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