Look beyond one's own nose: Combination of information from publicly available sources reveals an association of GATA4 polymorphisms with plasma triglycerides

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 698-703

  Lamina, Claudia ^a   Coassin, Stefan ^a   Illig, Thomas ^b   Kronenberg, Florian ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Association study; Bioinformatic; Epidemiology; Genetic epidemiology; Genome browser; Trigylcerides

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES COMPARISON; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

ACCESS TO INFORMATION; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATA MINING; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GATA4 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 82955167916     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.08.044     Document Type: Article

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