Genome-Wide Association Study for Serum Complement C3 and C4 Levels in Healthy Chinese Subjects

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Yang, Xiaobo ^a   Sun, Jielin ^b   Gao, Yong ^a,c   Tan, Aihua ^a   Zhang, Haiying ^a   Hu, Yanling ^a   Feng, Junjie ^b   Qin, Xue ^d   Tao, Sha ^b   Chen, Zhuo ^b   Kim, Seong Tae ^b   Peng, Tao ^d,e   Liao, Ming ^a   Lin, Xiaoling ^c   Zhang, Zengfeng ^a   Tang, Minzhong ^f   Li, Li ^a   Mo, Linjian ^d   Liang, Zhengjia ^g   Shi, Deyi ^g   Huang, Zhang ^g   Huang, Xianghua ^h   Liu, Ming ⁱ   Liu, Qian ^d   Zhang, Shijun ^a   Trent, Jeffrey M ^j   Zheng, S Lilly ^b   Xu, Jianfeng ^b,c,j,k   Mo, Zengnan ^a,d   more..

^a GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^g Fangchenggang First People's Hospital   (China)

^h Guigang People's Hospital   (China)

ⁱ Yulin First People's Hospital   (China)

^j VAN ANDEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 1; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; HLA A ANTIGEN; HLA B ANTIGEN; HLA C ANTIGEN; HLA DQ ANTIGEN; HLA DR ANTIGEN; HLA-DQBETA ANTIGEN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; C3 GENE; C4 GENE; CFH GENE; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME 6P; COMPLEMENT BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HLA A GENE; HLA B GENE; HLA C GENE; HLA DQB GENE; HLA DRA GENE; HLA DRB GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; SERUM; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMPLEMENT C3; COMPLEMENT C4; GENES, MHC CLASS II; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGENS; HLA-A ANTIGENS; HLA-B ANTIGENS; HLA-C ANTIGENS; HLA-DQ BETA-CHAINS; HLA-DR ALPHA-CHAINS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SERUM;

EID: 84866928184     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002916     Document Type: Article

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