Genome-wide association study of relative telomere length

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Prescott, Jennifer ^a,b   Kraft, Peter ^b   Chasman, Daniel I ^a   Savage, Sharon A ^c   Mirabello, Lisa ^c   Berndt, Sonja I ^c   Weissfeld, Joel L ^d   Han, Jiali ^a,b   Hayes, Richard B ^e   Chanock, Stephen J ^c   Hunter, David J ^a,b,f   de Vivo, Immaculata ^a,b  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e NEW YORK UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE OLIGOSACCHARIDE BINDING FOLD CONTAINING 1 PROTEIN; TELOMERASE RNA COMPONENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CHROMOSOME SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; PROSTATE CANCER; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE; VALIDATION PROCESS; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AGED; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELOMERE;

EID: 79955921900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019635     Document Type: Article

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