Recurring exon deletions in the HP (haptoglobin) gene contribute to lower blood cholesterol levels

Nature Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 359-366

  Boettger, Linda M ^a,b   Salem, Rany M ^a,b,c   Handsaker, Robert E ^a,b   Peloso, Gina M ^b,d   Kathiresan, Sekar ^b,d   Hirschhorn, Joel N ^a,b,c   McCarroll, Steven A ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

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

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; HAPTOGLOBIN; HP PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ARTICLE; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; EXON; GENE; GENE DELETION; GENE DUPLICATION; HAPLOTYPE; HAPTOGLOBIN GENE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BLOOD; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHOLESTEROL; EXONS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; HAPLOTYPES; HAPTOGLOBINS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE DELETION;

EID: 84959113449     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.3510     Document Type: Article

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