Genome-wide association study identifies two loci strongly affecting transferrin glycosylation

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 20, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 3710-3717

  Kutalik, Zoltán ^a,b   Benyamin, Beben ^c   Bergmann, Sven ^a,b   Mooser, Vincent ^d   Waeber, Gérard ^e   Montgomery, Grant W ^c   Martin, Nicholas G ^c   Madden, Pamela A F ^f   Heath, Andrew C ^f   Beckmann, Jacques S ^a,e   Vollenweider, Peter ^e   Marques Vidal, Pedro ^g   Whitfield, John B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^c QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

^e LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^f WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CARBOHYDRATE DEFICIENT TRANSFERRIN; GLUCOSE 1 PHOSPHATE; GLYCAN; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 3; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN GLYCOSYLATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SWITZERLAND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALCOHOL DRINKING; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GLYCOSYLATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SWITZERLAND; TRANSFERRIN;

EID: 80052225251     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr272     Document Type: Article

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