Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in LPA explain most of the Ancestry-specific variation in Lp(a) levels in African Americans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Deo, Rahul C ^a,b   Wilson, James G ^c   Xing, Chao ^d   Lawson, Kim ^e   Linda Kao, W H ^f   Reich, David ^a,g   Tandon, Arti ^a   Akylbekova, Ermeg ^c,h   Patterson, Nick ^a,g   Mosley Jr , Thomas H ^c   Boerwinkle, Eric ^e   Taylor Jr , Herman A ^c,h,i  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^h JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ TOUGALOO COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN A;

ACCURACY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HEART INFARCTION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KRINGLE DOMAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BLOOD; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETICS; NEGRO;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; KRINGLES; LIPOPROTEIN(A); POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 79551551096     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0014581     Document Type: Article

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