Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies in five cohorts reveals common variants in RBFOX1, a regulator of tissue-specific splicing, associated with refractive error

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 13, 2013, Pages 2754-2764

  Stambolian, Dwight ^a   Wojciechowski, Robert ^b,c   Oexle, Konrad ^d   Pirastu, Mario ^e   Li, Xiaohui ^f   Raffe, Leslie J ^f   Cotch, Mary Frances ^b   Chew, Emily Y ^b   Klein, Barbara ^g   Klein, Ronald ^g   Wong, Tien Y ^h,j   Simpson, Claire L ^c   Klaver, Caroline C W ^k   van Duijn, Cornelia M ^k   Verhoeven, Virginie J M ^k   Baird, Paul N ^j   Vitart, Veronique ^l   Paterson, Andrew D ⁿ   Mitchell, Paul ^o   Saw, Seang Mei ⁱ   Fossarello, Maurizio ^p   Kazmierkiewicz, Krista ^a   Murgia, Federico ^e   Portas, Laura ^e   Schache, Maria ^j   Richardson, Andrea ^j   Xie, Jing ^j   Wang, Jie Jin ^j,o   Rochtchina, Elena ^o   Viswanathan, Ananth C ^q,r   Hayward, Caroline ^l   Wright, Alan F ^l   Polašek, Ozren ^s   Campbell, Harry ^m   Rudan, Igor ^m   Oostra, Ben A ^k   Uitterlinden, André G ^k   Hofman, Albert ^k   Rivadeneira, Fernando ^k   Amin, Najaf ^k   Karssen, Lennart C ^k   Vingerling, Johannes R ^k   Hosseini, S M ⁿ   Döring, Angela ^t   Bettecken, Thomas ^u   Vatavuk, Zoran ^v   Gieger, Christian ^t   Wichmann, H Erich ^t   Wilson, James F ^m   Fleck, Brian ^w   Foster, Paul J ^q,r   Topouzis, Fotis ^x   McGuffin, Peter ^y   Sim, Xueling ^h   Inouye, Michael ^j   Holliday, Elizabeth G ^z,aa   Attia, John ^z,aa   Scott, Rodney J ^z,aa,ab,ac   Rotter, Jerome I ^f   Meitinger, Thomas ^d,u   Bailey Wilson, Joan E ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^h NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

ⁱ NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^k ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^l UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^o UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^p UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^q MOORFIELDS EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^r UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^s UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT   (Croatia)

^t Institute of Epidemiology   (Germany)

^u INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^v SESTRE MILOSRDNICE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Croatia)

^w PRINCESS ALEXANDRA EYE PAVILION   (United Kingdom)

^x ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^y KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^z UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^aa HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^ac JOHN HUNTER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCTAMER TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 4; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA BINDING PROTEIN FOX1 HOMOLOG; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 3; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME 10; CHROMOSOME 15Q; CHROMOSOME 16; ENHANCER REGION; EXON; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INTRON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BINDING; REFRACTION ERROR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REFRACTIVE ERRORS; RNA ISOFORMS; RNA SPLICING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878921285     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt116     Document Type: Article

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