Finding genes and variants for lipid levels after genome-wide association analysis

Current Opinion in Lipidology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 98-103

  Willer, Cristen J ^a   Mohlke, Karen L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cholesterol; genome wide association study; lipids; next generation sequencing

Indexed keywords

HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

EXOME; FOLLOW UP; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, VESICULAR TRANSPORT; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIPID METABOLISM; N-ACETYLGALACTOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84858783318     PISSN: 09579672     EISSN: 14736535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOL.0b013e328350fad2     Document Type: Review

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