Genome-wide association study of age at menarche in African-American women

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 22, Issue 16, 2013, Pages 3329-3346

  Demerath, Ellen W ^a   Liu, Ching Ti ^b   Franceschini, Nora ^d   Chen, Gary ^e   Palmer, Julie R ^c   Smith, Erin N ^f   Chen, Christina T L ^h   Ambrosone, Christine B ⁱ   Arnold, Alice M ^j   Bandera, Elisa V ^l   Berenson, Gerald S ^m   Bernstein, Leslie ⁿ   Britton, Angela ^o   Cappola, Anne R ^p   Carlson, Christopher S ^h   Chanock, Stephen J ^q   Chen, Wei ^m   Chen, Zhao ^r   Deming, Sandra L ^s,t   Elks, Cathy E ^u   Evans, Michelle K ^o   Gajdos, Zofia ^v   Henderson, Brian E ^e   Hu, Jennifer J ^w   Ingles, Sue ^e   John, Esther M ^x,y   Kerr, Kathleen F ^j   Kolonel, Laurence N ^z   Marchand, Loic Le ^z   Lu, Xiaoning ^b,aa   Millikan, Robert C ^d   Musani, Solomon K ^ab   Nock, Nora L ^ac   North, Kari ^d   Nyante, Sarah ^q   Press, Michael F ^e   Rodriquez Gil, Jorge L ^w   Ruiz Narvaez, Edward A ^c   Schork, Nicholas J ^ad   Srinivasan, Sathanur R ^m   Woods, Nancy F ^k   Zheng, Wei ^s,t   Ziegler, Regina G ^q   Zonderman, Alan ^o   Heiss, Gerardo ^d   Windham, B Gwen ^ab   Wellons, Melissa ^ae,af   Murray, Sarah S ^g   Nalls, Michael ^o   Pastinen, Tomi ^ak   Rajkovic, Aleksandar ^ag   Hirschhorn, Joel ^ah,ai   Cupples, L Adrienne ^b,aj   Kooperberg, Charles ^h   Murabito, Joanne M ^aj,al   Haiman, Christopher A ^e   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d IL   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f Department of Pediatrics   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

ⁱ ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^j Hanoi School of Public Health   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^l RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^m TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ CITY OF HOPE NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^o NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^q NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^s VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^t VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^u ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^v HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^x CANCER PREVENTION INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^y STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^z UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^aa BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

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

^ad SCRIPPS TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^af UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^ag UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^ah BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^ai HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^aj FRAMINGHAM HEART STUDY   (United States)

^ak MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^al BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FLRT2; GENE LOCUS; GENE PIK3R1; GENE RORA; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MENARCHE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF REPORT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MENARCHE; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR SUBFAMILY 1, GROUP F, MEMBER 1; OBESITY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84881225917     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddt181     Document Type: Article

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