Genetic Architecture of Vitamin B12 and Folate Levels Uncovered Applying Deeply Sequenced Large Datasets

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Grarup, Niels ^a   Sulem, Patrick ^b   Sandholt, Camilla H ^a   Thorleifsson, Gudmar ^b   Ahluwalia, Tarunveer S ^a   Steinthorsdottir, Valgerdur ^b   Bjarnason, Helgi ^b   Gudbjartsson, Daniel F ^b   Magnusson, Olafur T ^b   Sparsø, Thomas ^a   Albrechtsen, Anders ^c   Kong, Augustine ^b   Masson, Gisli ^b   Tian, Geng ^d   Cao, Hongzhi ^d   Nie, Chao ^d   Kristiansen, Karsten ^c   Husemoen, Lise Lotte ^e   Thuesen, Betina ^e   Li, Yingrui ^d   Nielsen, Rasmus ^c,f   Linneberg, Allan ^e   Olafsson, Isleifur ^g   Eyjolfsson, Gudmundur I ^h   Jørgensen, Torben ^e,i,j   Wang, Jun ^a,c,d   Hansen, Torben ^a,k   Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur ^b,l   Stefánsson, Kari ^b,l   Pedersen, Oluf ^a,i,m,n   more..

^a Capital Region   (Denmark)

^b DECODE GENETICS   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d BGI SHENZHEN   (China)

^e GLOSTRUP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g LANDSPITALI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Iceland)

^h Laboratory in Mjodd (RAM)   (Iceland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^j AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^k UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^l UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^m AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

ⁿ HAGEDORN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID;

ABCD4 GENE; ADULT; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CD320 GENE; CLYBL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBN GENE; DENMARK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXOME; FEMALE; FOLIC ACID BLOOD LEVEL; FOLR3 GENE; FUT2 GENE; FUT6 GENE; GENE; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; ICELAND; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MMAA GENE; MMACHC GENE; MTHFR GENE; MUT GENE; PLEIOTROPY; TCN1 GENE; TCN2 GENE; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DENMARK; EXOME; FOLIC ACID; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; ICELAND; METHYLENETETRAHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE (NADPH2); QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; VITAMIN B 12;

EID: 84879639524     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003530     Document Type: Article

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