Recent progress in the study of the genetics of height

Human Genetics

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 465-472

  Lettre, Guillaume ^a,b  

^a MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICRORNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY GROWTH; BODY HEIGHT; CHROMOSOME POSITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BODY HEIGHT; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 79955567590     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: 14321203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-011-0969-x     Document Type: Article

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