A genome-wide association study identifies a locus on TERT for mean telomere length in Han Chinese

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Liu, Yun ^a   Cao, Lan ^a   Li, Zhiqiang ^b   Zhou, Daizhan ^b   Liu, Wanqing ^c   Shen, Qin ^d   Wu, Yanting ^e   Zhang, Dan ^e   Hu, Xun ^f   Wang, Ting ^d   Ye, Junyi ^a   Weng, Xiaoling ^a   Zhang, Hong ^a   Zhang, Di ^b   Zhang, Zhou ^b   Liu, Fatao ^d   He, Lin ^b   Shi, Yongyong ^b  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Shanghai Jiao Tong University Affiliated Sixth People s Hospital   (China)

^e Zhejiang University School of Medicine   (China)

^f SHANGHAI SECOND MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KERATIN; KERATIN 80; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TELOMERASE; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CHINESE; CHROMOSOME 12Q; CHROMOSOME 5P; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE GENE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS; AGE; ALLELE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CAUCASIAN; CHEMISTRY; CHROMOSOME 5; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; LEUKOCYTE; METABOLISM; TELOMERE;

AGE FACTORS; ALLELES; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 5; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC LOCI; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; KERATINS; LEUKOCYTES; TELOMERASE; TELOMERE; TELOMERE HOMEOSTASIS;

EID: 84898620420     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0085043     Document Type: Article

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