Missing heritability: Is the gap closing? An analysis of 32 complex traits in the Lifelines Cohort Study

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 877-885

  Nolte, Ilja M ^a   Van Der Most, Peter J ^a   Alizadeh, Behrooz Z ^a   De Bakker, Paul I W ^b   Boezen, H Marike ^a   Bruinenberg, Marcel ^c   Franke, Lude ^a   Van Der Harst, Pim ^a   Navis, Gerjan ^a   Postma, Dirkje S ^a   Rots, Marianne G ^a   Stolk, Ronald P ^a   Swertz, Morris A ^a   Wolffenbuttel, Bruce Hr ^a   Wijmenga, Cisca ^a   Snieder, Harold ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c Lifelines Databeheer BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PRESSURE; BREATHING; DOMINANT GENE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEART RATE; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; STANDARDS;

BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD PRESSURE; GENES, DOMINANT; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; RESPIRATION;

EID: 85017428540     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2017.50     Document Type: Article

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