Genetic determinants of serum testosterone concentrations in men

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Ohlsson, Claes ^a   Wallaschofski, Henri ^b   Lunetta, Kathryn L ^c,d   Stolk, Lisette ^e,f   Perry, John R B ^g,h   Koster, Annemarie ⁱ   Petersen, Ann Kristin ^j   Eriksson, Joel ^a   Lehtimäki, Terho ^k   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo T ^l   Hammond, Geoffrey L ^m   Maggio, Marcello ⁿ   Coviello, Andrea D ^c,o   Emas Study Group, ^p   Ferrucci, Luigi ⁱ   Heier, Margit ^j   Hofman, Albert ^e,f   Holliday, Kate L ^p   Jansson, John Olov ^a   Kähönen, Mika ^k   Karasik, David ^q   Karlsson, Magnus K ^r   Kiel, Douglas P ^c,q   Liu, Yongmei ^s   Ljunggren, Östen ^t   Lorentzon, Mattias ^a   Lyytikäinen, Leo Pekka ^k   Meitinger, Thomas ^j,u   Mellström, Dan ^a   Melzer, David ^g   Miljkovic, Iva ^v   Nauck, Matthias ^b   Nilsson, Maria ^a   Penninx, Brenda ^w   Pye, Stephen R ^p   Vasan, Ramachandran S ^c,o   Reincke, Martin ^x   Rivadeneira, Fernando ^e,f   Tajar, Abdelouahid ^p   Teumer, Alexander ^b   Uitterlinden, André G ^e,f   Ulloor, Jagadish ^o   Viikari, Jorma ^y   Völker, Uwe ^b   Völzke, Henry ^b   Wichmann, H Erich ^j,x,z   Wu, Tsung Sheng ^m   Zhuang, Wei Vivian ^d   Ziv, Elad ^aa   Wu, Frederick C W ^p   Raitakari, Olli ^y,ab   Eriksson, Anna ^a   Bidlingmaier, Martin ^x   Harris, Tamara B ⁱ   Murray, Anna ^g,h   de Jong, Frank H ^e   Murabito, Joanne M ^c,o   Bhasin, Shalender ^c,o   Vandenput, Liesbeth ^a   Haring, Robin ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^c FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f Netherlands Consortium of Healthy Aging   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^j INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^k TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^l IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^o BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^q HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^r LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^s WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^t UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^u TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^v UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^w VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^x LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^y TURKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^z UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE; FAM9B PROTEIN, HUMAN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

AGE; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER MODEL; EXON; FOLLOW UP; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HORMONE BINDING; HUMAN; MALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MORTALITY; OBESITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; X CHROMOSOME; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; BODY MASS; GENETICS; META ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED;

ADULT; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; BODY MASS INDEX; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 80155172604     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002313     Document Type: Article

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