A genome-wide association study identifies common variants influencing serum uric acid concentrations in a Chinese population

BMC Medical Genomics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Yang, Binyao ^a   Mo, Zengnan ^b   Wu, Chen ^c   Yang, Handong ^d   Yang, Xiaobo ^b   He, Yunfeng ^a   Gui, Lixuan ^a   Zhou, Li ^a,f   Guo, Huan ^a   Zhang, Xiaomin ^a   Yuan, Jing ^a   Dai, Xiayun ^a   Li, Jun ^a   Qiu, Gaokun ^a   Huang, Suli ^a   Deng, Qifei ^a   Feng, Yingying ^a   Guan, Lei ^a   Hu, Die ^a   Zhang, Xiao ^a   Wang, Tian ^a   Zhu, Jiang ^d   Min, Xinwen ^d   Lang, Mingjian ^d   Li, Dongfeng ^d   Hu, Frank B ^e   Lin, Dongxin ^c   Wu, Tangchun ^a   He, Meian ^a   more..

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b GUANGXI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^d HUBEI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (China)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ethnic differences; Gene environment interaction; Genome wide association study; Serum uric acid

Indexed keywords

EID: 84894236175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17558794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1755-8794-7-10     Document Type: Article

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