A genome-wide association study for age-related hearing impairment in the Saami

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 685-693

  Van Laer, Lut ^a   Huyghe, Jeroen R ^a   Hannula, Samuli ^b   Van Eyken, Els ^a   Stephan, Dietrich A ^c   Mäki Torkko, Elina ^b   Aikio, Pekka ^b   Fransen, Erik ^a   Lysholm Bernacchi, Alana ^c   Sorri, Martti ^b   Huentelman, Matthew J ^c   Van Camp, Guy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^c TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age related hearing impairment; Genome wide association study; Isolated population; Mixed model; Presbycusis; Saami

Indexed keywords

DNA; IQ MOTIF CONTAINING GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE ACTIVATING PROTEIN 1; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 7;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDIOMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; FINLAND; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESBYACUSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RAS GTPASE-ACTIVATING PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; SCANDINAVIA; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 77952670325     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2009.234     Document Type: Article

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