Genetics and molecular biology: Identification of dyslipidemia genes

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 548-549

  Rotondo, Dino ^a   Davidson, Jillian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A5; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; CHOLESTEROL ESTER TRANSFER PROTEIN; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DNA ISOLATION; DYSLIPIDEMIA; GENE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NOTE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

DYSLIPIDEMIAS; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOPROTEINS, HDL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78649370245     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOL.0b013e3283404fde     Document Type: Note

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