Significantly fewer protein functional changing variants for lipid metabolism in Africans than in Europeans

Journal of Translational Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Xue, Cheng ^a,b   Liu, Xiaoming ^a   Gong, Yun ^a   Zhao, Yuhai ^c   Fu, Yun Xin ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b GuangDong Institute for Monitoring Laboratory Animals   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d YUNNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBOHYDRATE; LIPID;

AMINO ACID METABOLISM; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CATABOLISM; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIPID METABOLISM; NEGRO; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN FUNCTIONAL CHANGING VARIANT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 84875058791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14795876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1479-5876-11-67     Document Type: Article

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