Loci affecting gamma-glutamyl transferase in adults and adolescents show age × SNP interaction and cardiometabolic disease associations

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 446-455

  Middelberg, Rita P ^a   Benyamin, Beben ^a   de Moor, Marleen H M ^b   Warrington, Nicole M ^c   Gordon, Scott ^a   Henders, Anjali K ^a   Medland, Sarah E ^a   Nyholt, Dale R ^a   de Geus, Eco J C ^b   Hottenga, Jouke J ^b   Willemsen, Gonneke ^b   Beilin, Lawrence J ^d   Mori, Trevor A ^d   Wright, Margaret J ^a   Heath, Andrew C ^e   Madden, Pamela A F ^e   Boomsma, Dorret I ^b   Pennell, Craig E ^c   Montgomery, Grant W ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^a   Whitfield, John B ^a   more..

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; HEPATOCYTE NUCLEAR FACTOR;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOMETABOLIC DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 14; CHROMOSOME 15; CHROMOSOME 22; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATORY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALLELES; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; METABOLIC DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84855369567     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr478     Document Type: Article

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