Associations between serum sex hormone concentrations and whole blood gene expression profiles in the general population

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  Haring, Robin ^a,b,d   Schurmann, Claudia ^a   Homuth, Georg ^a   Steil, Leif ^a   Völker, Uwe ^a,b   Völzke, Henry ^a,b   Keevil, Brian G ^c   Nauck, Matthias ^a,b   Wallaschofski, Henri ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^b DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d University of Applied Sciences Technology Business and Design   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTENEDIONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; MESSENGER RNA; PRASTERONE SULFATE; SEX HORMONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; AGE; ANDROSTENEDIONE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BPGM GENE; DDIT4 GENE; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; ESTRONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; GYPB GENE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RAB2B GENE; RIOK3 GENE; RPIA GENE; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; AGED; BLOOD; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANDROSTENEDIONE; BODY MASS INDEX; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE SULFATE; ESTRADIOL; ESTRONE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX HORMONE-BINDING GLOBULIN; TESTOSTERONE; TRANSCRIPTOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84930623092     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0127466     Document Type: Article

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