Translational genomic medicine: Common metabolic traits and ancestral components of Mexican Americans

Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 545-546

  Qu, Hui Qi ^a   Li, Quan ^b   Lu, Yang ^a   Fisher Hoch, Susan P ^a   McCormick, Joseph B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; GENOTYPE; HISPANIC; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; LIVER DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AMERICAN INDIAN; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; PATHOLOGY; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

AMERICAN NATIVE CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; METABOLIC DISEASES; MEXICAN AMERICANS; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 84866335443     PISSN: 00222593     EISSN: 14686244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jmedgenet-2012-100966     Document Type: Article

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