Genome-wide interrogation reveals hundreds of long intergenic noncoding RNAs that associate with cardiometabolic traits

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 3125-3141

  Ballantyne, Rachel L ^a   Zhang, Xuan ^b   Nuñez, Sara ^c   Xue, Chenyi ^b   Zhao, Wei ^d   Reed, Eric ^c   Salaheen, Danish ^d   Foulkes, Andrea S ^c   Li, Mingyao ^d   Reilly, Muredach P ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

^c MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ADIPOCYTE; ADIPOSE TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LEUKOCYTE; METABOLIC DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYNTENY; WAIST HIP RATIO; ALLELE; GENETICS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN GENOME; METABOLISM; PAKISTAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADIPOCYTES; ALLELES; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PAKISTAN; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 85016100490     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddw154     Document Type: Article

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