NordicDB: A Nordic pool and portal for genome-wide control data

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1322-1326

  Leu, Monica ^a,b   Humphreys, Keith ^a   Surakka, Ida ^b,c   Rehnberg, Emil ^a   Muilu, Juha ^b   Rosenström, Päivi ^b   Almgren, Peter ^d   Jääskeläinen, Juha ^e   Lifton, Richard P ^f   Kyvik, Kirsten Ohm ^g   Kaprio, Jaakko ^b,c   Pedersen, Nancy L ^a   Palotie, Aarno ^b,h,i   Hall, Per ^a   Grönberg, Henrik ^a   Groop, Leif ^d   Peltonen, Leena ^b,c,h,i   Palmgren, Juni ^a,j   Ripatti, Samuli ^b,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d LUND UNIVERSITY DIABETES CENTRE   (Sweden)

^e KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^h MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

ⁱ WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^j STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Author keywords

common controls; genome wide data; Nordic Control Database; population stratification

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; DENMARK; FINLAND; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DATABASE; GENOME ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCANDINAVIA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SWEDEN;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATABASES, GENETIC; GENE POOL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INTERNET; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 78549251700     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2010.112     Document Type: Article

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