Genetics of human metabolism: An update

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue R1, 2015, Pages R93-R101

  Kastenmüller, Gabi ^a,b   Raffler, Johannes ^a   Gieger, Christian ^a   Suhre, Karsten ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b GERMAN CENTER FOR DIABETES RESEARCH DZD   (Germany)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPISTASIS; EXOME; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICALLY INFLUENCED METABOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLISM; METABOLITE; METABOLOMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLOME;

ANIMALS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; METABOLIC NETWORKS AND PATHWAYS; METABOLISM; METABOLOME;

EID: 84943807991     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddv263     Document Type: Review

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