Genome-wide association analyses identify variants in developmental genes associated with hypospadias

Nature Genetics

Volumn 46, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 957-963

  Geller, Frank ^a   Feenstra, Bjarke ^a   Carstensen, Lisbeth ^a   Pers, Tune H ^b,c,d   Van Rooij, Iris A L M ^e   Körberg, Izabella Baranowska ^f   Choudhry, Shweta ^g   Karjalainen, Juha M ^h   Schnack, Tine H ^a   Hollegaard, Mads V ^a   Feitz, Wout F J ^e   Roeleveld, Nel ^e   Hougaard, David M ^a   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^b,c,i   Franke, Lude ^h   Baskin, Laurence S ^g   Nordenskjöld, Agneta ^f   Van Der Zanden, Loes F M ^e   Melbye, Mads ^a,j  

^a STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

ⁱ HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENMARK; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWEDEN; X CHROMOSOME; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; PROCEDURES; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; GENES, DEVELOPMENTAL; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SWEDEN;

EID: 84922392356     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3063     Document Type: Article

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