Ultraconserved elements in the human genome: Association and transmission analyses of highly constrained single-nucleotide polymorphisms

Genetics

Volumn 192, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 253-266

  Chiang, Charleston W K ^a,b,c,t   Liu, Ching Ti ^d   Lettre, Guillaume ^e,f   Lange, Leslie A ^g   Jorgensen, Neal W ^h   Keating, Brendan J ⁱ   Vedantam, Sailaja ^a,c   Nock, Nora L ^j   Franceschini, Nora ^k   Reiner, Alex P ^l   Demerath, Ellen W ^m   Boerwinkle, Eric ⁿ   Rotter, Jerome I ^o   Wilson, James G ^p   North, Kari E ^k   Papanicolaou, George J ^q   Adrienne Cupples, L ^d,q   Murabito, Joanne M ^r,s   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^f MONTREAL HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

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

^h UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^j CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^l USA   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^o CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^q NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^r FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^s BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FITNESS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; LONGEVITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; REPRODUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DOGS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENETIC FITNESS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; MALE; MICE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RATS; REPRODUCTION; YOUNG ADULT;

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EID: 84866085726     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.112.141945     Document Type: Article

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