Associations between a Polymorphism in the Pleiotropic GCKR and Age-Related Phenotypes: The HALCyon Programme

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Alfred, Tamuno ^a   Ben Shlomo, Yoav ^a   Cooper, Rachel ^b   Hardy, Rebecca ^b   Deary, Ian J ^c   Elliott, Jane ^d   Harris, Sarah E ^c   Kivimaki, Mika ^b   Kumari, Meena ^b   Power, Chris ^e   Starr, John M ^c   Kuh, Diana ^b   Day, Ian N M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GCKR GENE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UNITED KINGDOM; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOSE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROIMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 84880757557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070045     Document Type: Article

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