Combined Whole Methylome and Genomewide Association Study Implicates CNTN4 in Alcohol Use

Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1396-1405

  Clark, Shaunna L ^a   Aberg, Karolina A ^a   Nerella, Srilaxmi ^a   Kumar, Gaurav ^a   Mcclay, Joseph L ^a   Chen, Wenan ^a   Xie, Linying Y ^a   Harada, Aki ^a   Shabalin, Andrey A ^a   Gao, Guimin ^a   Bergen, Sarah E ^b,c   Hultman, Christina M ^d   Magnusson, Patrik K E ^d   Sullivan, Patrick F ^d,e   van den Oord, Edwin J C G ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

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

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

CNTN4; Genomewide Association Study; Methylation; Next Generation Sequencing

Indexed keywords

BISULFITE; CONTACTIN; DNA FRAGMENT; GENOMIC DNA; METHYL CPG BINDING PROTEIN; CNTN4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; CPG ISLAND; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHYLATION; NEXT GENERATION SEQUENCING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYROSEQUENCING; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AGED; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; CONTACTINS; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84937724877     PISSN: 01456008     EISSN: 15300277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acer.12790     Document Type: Article

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