Genome-wide association study of body height in African Americans: The Women's Health Initiative SNP Health Association Resource (SHARe)

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 711-720

  Carty, Cara L ^a   Johnson, Nicholas A ^b   Hutter, Carolyn M ^a   Reiner, Alexander P ^a,c   Peters, Ulrike ^a,c   Tang, Hua ^b   Kooperberg, Charles ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP A2 PROTEIN; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR; SERPINH1 PROTEIN; TMEM100 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CHROMOSOME XP; COHORT ANALYSIS; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OSTEOARTHRITIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; POPULATION REGULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SELF REPORT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; BODY HEIGHT; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84856117436     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddr489     Document Type: Article

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