Common variants near TERC are associated with leukocyte telomere length in the Chinese Han population

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 721-723

  Shen, Qin ^a,b   Zhang, Zhou ^b   Yu, Lan ^b   Cao, Lan ^a   Zhou, Daizhan ^b   Kan, Mengyuan ^b   Li, Baojie ^c   Zhang, Di ^b   He, Lin ^a,b,c   Liu, Yun ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^c SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chinese population; leukocyte telomere length; TERC

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME 3Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE; TERC GENE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; LINEAR MODELS; LONGEVITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEX FACTORS; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE;

EID: 79956330471     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2011.4     Document Type: Article

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