Loci influencing blood pressure identified using a cardiovascular gene-centric array

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1663-1678

  Ganesh, Santhi K ^a   Tragante, Vinicius ^b   Guo, Wei ^c   Guo, Yiran ^d   Lanktree, Matthew B ^e   Smith, Erin N ^f   Johnson, Toby ^g   Castillo, Berta Almoguera ^d   Barnard, John ^h   Baumert, Jens ^j   Chang, Yen Pei Christy ^k   Elbers, Clara C ^b   Farrall, Martin ^l   Fischer, Mary E ^m   Franceschini, Nora ⁿ   Gaunt, Tom R ^o   Gho, Johannes M I H ^b   Gieger, Christian ^j   Gong, Yan ^p   Isaacs, Aaron ^r   Kleber, Marcus E ^s,t   Leach, Irene Mateo ^u   McDonough, Caitrin W ^p   Meijs, Matthijs F L ^b   Mellander, Olle ^v,w   Molony, Cliona M ^x   Nolte, Ilja M ^u   Padmanabhan, Sandosh ^y   Price, Tom S ^z   Rajagopalan, Ramakrishnan ^aa   Shaffer, Jonathan ^ab   Shah, Sonia ^ac   Shen, Haiqing ^k   Soranzo, Nicole ^ad   van der Most, Peter J ^u   Van Iperen, Erik P A ^x,ae   Van Setten, Jessic A ^b   Vonk, Judith M ^u   Zhang, Li ^h   Beitelshees, Amber L ^h   Berenson, Gerald S ^ag   Bhatt, Deepak L ^ah   Boer, Jolanda M A ^ai   Boerwinkle, Eric ^aj,ak   Burkley, Ben ^p   Burt, Amber ^aa   Chakravarti, Aravinda ^al   Chen, Wei ^ag   Cooper DeHoff, Rhonda M ^p   Curtis, Sean P ^an   Dreisbach, Albert ^ao   Duggan, David ^aq   Ehret, Georg B ^al   Fabsitz, Richard R ^ar   Fornage, Myriam ^aj   Fox, Ervin ^ao   Furlong, Clement E ^aa   Gansevoort, Ron T ^u   Hofker, Marten H ^u   Hovingh, G Kees ^x   Kirkland, Susan A ^as   Kottke Marchant, Kandice ^h   Kutlar, Abdullah ^at   LaCroix, Andrea Z ^au   Langaee, Taimour Y ^p   Li, Yun R ^d   Lin, Honghuang ^av   Liu, Kiang ^ax   Maiwald, Steffi ^ay   Malik, Rainer ^az   Murugesan, Gurunathan ^h   Newton Cheh, Christopher ^ba,bb   O'Connell, Jeffery R ^k   Onland Moret, N Charlotte ^b   Ouwehand, Willem H ^ad   Palmas, Walter ^ab   Penninx, Brenda W ^bc   Pepine, Carl J ^q   Pettinger, Mary ^ar   Polak, Joseph F ^ah   Ramachandran, Vasan S ^av,aw   Ranchalis, Jane ^aa   Redline, Susan ^bd   Ridker, Paul M ^bd   Rose, Lynda M ^bd   Scharnag, Hubert ^a,be   Schork, Nicholas J ^bf   Shimbo, Daichi ^ab   Shuldiner, Alan R ^k,bg   Srinivasan, Sathanur R ^ag   Stolk, Ronald P ^u   Taylor, Herman A ^ao   Thorand, Barbara ^j   Trip, Mieke D ^af   van Duijn, Cornelia M ^r   Verschuren, W Monique ^ai   Wijmenga, Cisca ^u   Winkelmann, Bernhard R ^bh   Wyatt, Sharon ^ap   Young, J Hunter ^am   Boehm, Bernhard O ^bi   Caulfield, Mark J ^g   Chasman, Daniel I ^bd   Davidson, Karina W ^ab   Doevendans, Pieter A ^b   FitzGerald, Garret A ^bj   Gums, John G ^q   Hakonarson, Hakon ^d   Hillege, Hans L ^u   Illig, Thomas ^j,bk   Jarvik, Gail P ^aa   Johnson, Julie A ^p   Kastelein, John J P ^x   Koenig, Wolfgang ^bi   Study, LifeLines Cohort ^u   März, Winfried ^t,bl   Mitchell, Braxton D ^k   Murray, Sarah S ^bm   Oldehinkel, Albertine J ^u   Rader, Daniel J ^bj   Reilly, Muredach P ^bj   Reiner, Alex P ^au   Schadt, Eric E ^bn   Silverstein, Roy L ^c,i   Snieder, Harold ^u   Stanton, Alice V ^bo   Uitterlinden, André G ^r   van der Harst, Pim ^u   van der Schouw, Yvonne T ^b   Samani, Nilesh J ^bp,bq   Johnson, Andrew D ^aw   Munroe, Patricia B ^g   de Bakker, Paul I W ^b,ba,bd   Zhu, Xiaofeng ^c   Levy, Daniel ^ar   Keating, Brendan J ^d   Asselbergs, Folkert W ^b,ae   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^e WESTERN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ Lerner Research Institute   (Germany)

^j INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

ⁿ IL   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^p UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^r ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^s LURIC Study Nonprofit LLC   (Germany)

^t UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^u UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^v LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^w LUND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^x Rosetta Inpharmatics ^*  (Netherlands)

^y UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^z MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ab Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^ac UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^ad NHS BLOOD AND TRANSPLANT   (United Kingdom)

^ae Durrer Center for Cardiogenetic Research   (Netherlands)

^af ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^ag TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ah HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^ai NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^ak UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^al JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^am JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^an MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^ao UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ap UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^aq TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^ar NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^as DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^at MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^au Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^av BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^aw FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^ax NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ay UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^az LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^ba BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^bb MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^bc VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^bd BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^be MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^bf SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^bg BALTIMORE VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^bh Cardiology Group   (Germany)

^bi UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^bj UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^bk HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^bl SYNLAB ACADEMY   (Germany)

^bm SCRIPPS TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^bn MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^bo ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND   (Ireland)

^bp UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^bq GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FURIN; PROTEIN MDMX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX6;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHROMOSOME 11P; CHROMOSOME 19; CHROMOSOME 1Q; CHROMOSOME 3P; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; PHENOTYPE; PLEIOTROPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE PRESSURE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84875781416     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/dds555     Document Type: Article

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