Genome-wide association study of copy number variation identified gremlin1 as a candidate gene for lean body mass

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-37

  Hai, Rong ^a,b   Pei, Yu Fang ^a   Shen, Hui ^c   Zhang, Lei ^a   Liu, Xiao Gang ^d   Lin, Yong ^a   Ran, Shu ^a   Pan, Feng ^d   Tan, Li Jun ^e   Lei, Shu Feng ^e   Yang, Tie Lin ^d   Zhang, Yan ^a   Zhu, Xue Zhen ^a   Zhao, Lan Juan ^c   Deng, Hong Wen ^a,c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHANGHAI FOR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b INNER MONGOLIA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

15q13.3; association; copy number variation; gremlin1 gene; lean body mass

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARM; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; GREMLIN1 GENE; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LEG; LIMB; MALE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRUNK;

ADULT; BODY WEIGHT; DNA COPY NUMBER VARIATIONS; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; THINNESS;

EID: 84863012766     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: 1435232X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2011.125     Document Type: Article

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