GWAS of blood cell traits identifies novel associated loci and epistatic interactions in caucasian and African-American children

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1457-1464

  Li, Jin ^a   Glessner, Joseph T ^a   Zhang, Haitao ^a   Hou, Cuiping ^a   Wei, Zhi ^c   Bradfield, Jonathan P ^a   Mentch, Frank D ^a   Guo, Yiran ^a   Kim, Cecilia ^a   Xia, Qianghua ^b   Chiavacci, Rosetta M ^a   Thomas, Kelly A ^a   Qiu, Haijun ^a   Grant, Struan F A ^a,b,d   Furth, Susan L ^d   Hakonarson, Hakon ^a,b,d   Sleiman, Patrick M A ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c New Jersey Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LEUKOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALPHA-GLOBINS; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; EPISTASIS, GENETIC; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; ERYTHROCYTES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84875271874     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/dds534     Document Type: Article

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