Identification of nine novel loci associated with white blood cell subtypes in a Japanese population

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Okada, Yukinori ^a,b   Hirota, Tomomitsu ^a   Kamatani, Yoichiro ^c   Takahashi, Atsushi ^a   Ohmiya, Hiroko ^a   Kumasaka, Natsuhiko ^a   Higasa, Koichiro ^a   Yamaguchi Kabata, Yumi ^a   Hosono, Naoya ^a   Nalls, Michael A ^d   Chen, Ming Huei ^e,f   van Rooij, Frank J A ^g,h   Smith, Albert V ⁱ   Tanaka, Toshiko ^d   Couper, David J ^j   Zakai, Neil A ^k   Ferrucci, Luigi ^d   Longo, Dan L ^d   Hernandez, Dena G ^d   Witteman, Jacqueline C M ^g,h   Harris, Tamara B ^d   O'Donnell, Christopher J ^e,l   Ganesh, Santhi K ^m   Matsuda, Koichi ⁿ   Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko ^a   Tanaka, Toshihiro ^a   Kubo, Michiaki ^a   Nakamura, Yusuke ⁿ   Tamari, Mayumi ^a   Yamamoto, Kazuhiko ^b   Kamatani, Naoyuki ^a   more..

^a INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c FONDATION JEAN DAUSSET CEPH   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^e FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^f BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h Netherlands Consortium of Healthy Aging (NCHA)   (Netherlands)

ⁱ ICELANDIC HEART ASSOCIATION   (Iceland)

^j IL   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^m UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE 6; DIPEPTIDASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; INTEGRIN; NUCKS1 SLC45A3 FUSION PROTEIN; PROTEIN ITGA4; PROTEIN MLZE; PROTEIN NAALAD2; PROTEIN STXBP6; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR ERG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BASOPHIL; CAUCASIAN; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EOSINOPHIL COUNT; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FUSION GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; JAPANESE; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; LEUKOCYTE FUNCTION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MONOCYTE; NEUTROPHIL COUNT; PLEIOTROPY; ASIAN; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LEUKOCYTE; METABOLISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 79959859184     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002067     Document Type: Article

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