Common variants in DGKK are strongly associated with risk of hypospadias

Nature Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-50

  Van Der Zanden, Loes F M ^a   Van Rooij, Iris A L M ^a   Feitz, Wout F J ^a   Knight, Jo ^b,c   Donders, A Rogier T ^a   Renkema, Kirsten Y ^a   Bongers, Ernie M H F ^a   Vermeulen, Sita H H M ^a   Kiemeney, Lambertus A L M ^a   Veltman, Joris A ^a   Arias Vásquez, Alejandro ^a,d   Zhang, Xufeng ^e   Markljung, Ellen ^e   Qiao, Liang ^f   Baskin, Laurence S ^f   Nordenskjöld, Agneta ^e,g   Roeleveld, Nel ^a   Franke, Barbara ^a,d   Knoers, Nine V A M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c King's College London ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIACYLGLYCEROL KINASE; DIACYLGLYCEROL KINASE KAPPA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SWEDEN;

DIACYLGLYCEROL KINASE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78651229757     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.721     Document Type: Article

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