Genome-wide association study of hematological and biochemical traits in a Japanese population

Nature Genetics

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 210-215

  Kamatani, Yoichiro ^a,b   Matsuda, Koichi ^a   Okada, Yukinori ^c   Kubo, Michiaki ^c   Hosono, Naoya ^c   Daigo, Yataro ^a,b   Nakamura, Yusuke ^a,c   Kamatani, Naoyuki ^c  

^a THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c RIKEN   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; CREATINE KINASE; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; LIPID; URATE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; ERYTHROCYTE; EUROPE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MOLECULAR GENETICS; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; ERYTHROCYTES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASES; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; URIC ACID;

EID: 77649184039     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.531     Document Type: Article

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