Heritability of liver enzyme levels estimated from genome-wide SNP data

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1223-1228

  Van Beek, Jenny H D A ^a,b   Lubke, Gitta H ^a,c   De Moor, Marleen H M ^a,b   Willemsen, Gonneke ^a,b   De Geus, Eco J C ^a,b,d   Hottenga, Jouke Jan ^a,b,d   Walters, Raymond K ^c   Smit, Jan H ^a   Penninx, Brenda W J H ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a,b,d  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^d School of Neurosciences Amsterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; LIVER ENZYME;

ADULT; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GAMMA GLUTAMYL TRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; VERY ELDERLY; ADOLESCENT; CHEMISTRY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN GENOME; INHERITANCE; LIVER; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALANINE TRANSAMINASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASES; FEMALE; GAMMA-GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LIVER; MALE; META-ANALYSIS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 84939582601     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2014.259     Document Type: Review

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