Associations between Variation in CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4, Body Mass Index and Blood Pressure in the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Kaakinen, Marika ^a   Ducci, Francesca ^b,c   Sillanpää, Mikko J ^a   Läärä, Esa ^a   Järvelin, Marjo Riitta ^a,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^e IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA3; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA5; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR BETA4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRNA3 GENE; CHRNA5 GENE; CHRNB4 GENE; CHROMOSOME 15Q; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FINLAND; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; SMOKING; TOBACCO USE DISORDER;

EID: 84866936320     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046557     Document Type: Article

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