Genome-Wide association study of white blood cell count in 16,388 african americans: The continental Origins and Genetic Epidemiology network (COGENT)

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Reiner, Alexander P ^a,b   Lettre, Guillaume ^c,d   Nalls, Michael A ^e   Ganesh, Santhi K ^f   Mathias, Rasika ^g   Austin, Melissa A ^a,b   Dean, Eric ^h   Arepalli, Sampath ^e   Britton, Angela ^e   Chen, Zhao ⁱ   Couper, David ^j   Curb, J David ^k   Eaton, Charles B ^l   Fornage, Myriam ^m   Grant, Struan F A ⁿ   Harris, Tamara B ^e   Hernandez, Dena ^e   Kamatini, Naoyuki ^o   Keating, Brendan J ⁿ   Kubo, Michiaki ^p   LaCroix, Andrea ^a,b   Lange, Leslie A ^q   Liu, Simin ^r   Lohman, Kurt ^s   Meng, Yan ^t   Mohler, Emile R ^u   Musani, Solomon ^v   Nakamura, Yusuke ^w   O'Donnell, Christopher J ^x,y   Okada, Yukinori ^o   Palmer, Cameron D ^t   Papanicolaou, George J ^x   Patel, Kushang V ^e   Singleton, Andrew B ^e   Takahashi, Atsushi ^o   Tang, Hua ^z   Taylor Jr , Herman A ^v,aa   Taylor, Kent ^ab   Thomson, Cynthia ^ac   Yanek, Lisa R ^g   Yang, Lingyao ^s   Ziv, Elad ^h   Zonderman, Alan B ^e   Folsom, Aaron R ^ad   Evans, Michele K ^e   Liu, Yongmei ^s   Becker, Diane M ^g   Snively, Beverly M ^s   Wilson, James G ^v   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^j IL   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^l BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁿ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^o INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^p RIKEN   (Japan)

^q UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^s WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^u UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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

^w UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^x NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^y FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^z STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^aa JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ab CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^ad UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CXCL2 CHEMOKINE; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 6; HYBRID PROTEIN; HYDROCEPHALUS INDUCING HOMOLOG PROTEIN; PSMD3 CSF3 FUSION PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CXCL2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DARC PROTEIN, HUMAN;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CHROMOSOMAL LOCALIZATION; CHROMOSOME 16Q; CHROMOSOME 1Q; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CHROMOSOME DUPLICATION; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FUSION GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HERITABILITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPANESE; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MALE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ARTIFACT; ASIAN; BLOOD GROUP DUFFY SYSTEM; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 16; CHROMOSOME 4; DNA REPLICATION; GENETICS; META ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ARTIFACTS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHEMOKINE CXCL2; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 1; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 16; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; DNA REPLICATION; DUFFY BLOOD-GROUP SYSTEM; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79959812503     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002108     Document Type: Article

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