Genetic variation in metabolic phenotypes: Study designs and applications

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 759-769

  Suhre, Karsten ^a,b   Gieger, Christian ^b  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; METABOLOME; METABOLOMICS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; METABOLOMICS; PHENOTYPE; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84867744660     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3314     Document Type: Review

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