Association of TERC and OBFC1 haplotypes with mean leukocyte telomere length and risk for coronary heart disease

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Maubaret, Cécilia G ^a,b   Salpea, Klelia D ^a,c   Romanoski, Casey E ^d   Folkersen, Lasse ^e   Cooper, Jackie A ^a   Stephanou, Coralea ^a   Li, Ka Wah ^a   Palmen, Jutta ^a   Hamsten, Anders ^e   Neil, Andrew ^f   Stephens, Jeffrey W ^g   Lusis, Aldons J ^d   Eriksson, Per ^e   Talmud, Philippa J ^a   Humphries, Steve E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER ALEXANDER FLEMING   (Greece)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN OBFC1; PROTEIN TERC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; RNA; STN1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TELOMERASE; TELOMERASE RNA; TELOMERE BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULAR PARAMETERS; CHROMOSOME 18Q; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY RISK; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE TELOMERE LENGTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; GENETICS; LEUKOCYTE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; TELOMERE;

AGED; CORONARY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; RNA; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; TELOMERE-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 84892623214     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0083122     Document Type: Article

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