Genome Wide Association Study of Age at Menarche in the Japanese Population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Tanikawa, Chizu ^a   Okada, Yukinori ^b,c,d   Takahashi, Atsushi ^b   Oda, Katsutoshi ^e   Kamatani, Naoyuki ^b   Kubo, Michiaki ^b   Nakamura, Yusuke ^a,f   Matsuda, Koichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b INST OF PHYS AND CHEMICAL RESEARCH   (Japan)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^f University of Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARNTL GENE; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; CA10 GENE; CCDC85A GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LOC100421670 GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; RISK FACTOR; RXRG GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ZNF483 GENE; AGE; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUCASIAN; GENETICS; JAPAN; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC);

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MENARCHE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84877145117     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063821     Document Type: Article

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