An evolutionary genomic approach to identify genes involved in human birth timing

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Plunkett, Jevon ^a,b   Doniger, Scott ^b   Orabona, Guilherme ^a,c   Morgan, Thomas ^a,c   Haataja, Ritva ^d   Hallman, Mikko ^d   Puttonen, Hilkka ^e   Menon, Ramkumar ^f,g   Kuczynski, Edward ^h   Norwitz, Errol ^h   Snegovskikh, Victoria ^h   Palotie, Aarno ^e,i,j   Peltonen, Leena ^e,i,j   Fellman, Vineta ^e,k   deFranco, Emily A ^l   Chaudhari, Bimal P ^b   McGregor, Tracy L ^a   McElroy, Jude J ^a,c   Oetjens, Matthew T ^c   Teramo, Kari ^e   Borecki, Ingrid ^b   Fay, Justin ^b   Muglia, Louis ^a,c,m   more..

^a MONROE CARELL JR CHILDREN S HOSPITAL AT VANDERBILT   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^f Perinatal Research Center   (United States)

^g EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^j WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^k LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; FSHR GENE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PREMATURE LABOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; PREMATURITY; RISK FACTOR;

MAMMALIA; PRIMATES;

FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MODELS, GENETIC; PARTURITION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREMATURE BIRTH; RECEPTORS, FSH; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79955608065     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1001365     Document Type: Article

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