A genome wide association study identifies common variants associated with lipid levels in the Chinese population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Zhou, Li ^a,b   He, Meian ^a   Mo, Zengnan ^c   Wu, Chen ^d   Yang, Handong ^e   Yu, Dianke ^d   Yang, Xiaobo ^c   Zhang, Xiaomin ^a,f   Wang, Yiqin ^g   Sun, Jielin ^h   Gao, Yong ^c   Tan, Aihua ^c   He, Yunfeng ^a   Zhang, Haiying ^c   Qin, Xue ^c   Zhu, Jingwen ^g   Li, Huaixing ^g   Lin, Xu ^g   Zhu, Jiang ^e   Min, Xinwen ^e   Lang, Mingjian ^e   Li, Dongfeng ^e   Zhai, Kan ^d   Chang, Jiang ^d   Tan, Wen ^d   Yuan, Jing ^a   Chen, Weihong ^a   Wang, Youjie ^a   Wei, Sheng ^a   Miao, Xiaoping ^a   Wang, Feng ^a   Fang, Weimin ^a   Liang, Yuan ^a   Deng, Qifei ^a   Dai, Xiayun ^a   Lin, Dafeng ^a   Huang, Suli ^a   Guo, Huan ^a   Zheng, S Lilly ^h   Xu, Jianfeng ^h   Lin, Dongxin ^d   Hu, Frank B ^f   Wu, Tangchun ^a   more..

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CANCER HOSPITAL   (China)

^e HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (China)

^f HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^h FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETIC MARKER; LIPID;

AGED; BLOOD; CHINA; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIPID METABOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

AGED; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84893551953     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082420     Document Type: Article

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