Genome-wide association study of red blood cell traits in Hispanics/Latinos: The Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Hodonsky, Chani J ^a   Jain, Deepti ^b   Schick, Ursula M ^c,d   Morrison, Jean V ^b   Brown, Lisa ^b   McHugh, Caitlin P ^b,e   Schurmann, Claudia ^c   Chen, Diane D ^f   Liu, Yong Mei ^g   Auer, Paul L ^h   Laurie, Cecilia A ^b   Taylor, Kent D ⁱ   Browning, Brian L ^b   Li, Yun ^a,j,k   Papanicolaou, George ^l   Rotter, Jerome I ⁱ   Kurita, Ryo ^m   Nakamura, Yukio ^n,o   Browning, Sharon R ^b   Loos, Ruth J F ^c   North, Kari E ^a,j   Laurie, Cathy C ^b   Thornton, Timothy A ^b   Pankratz, Nathan ^p   Bauer, Daniel E ^f,q,r   Sofer, Tamar ^b   Reiner, Alex P ^d   more..

^a IL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^e NEW YORK GENOME CENTER   (United States)

^f BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^g WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

ⁱ HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^l NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^m SUWA RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

ⁿ RIKEN BIORESOURCE CENTER   (Japan)

^o UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^q DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^r HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA GLOBULIN; CELL PROTEIN; HEMOGLOBIN; LINC01184 PROTEIN; LONG UNTRANSLATED RNA; SODIUM POTASSIUM CHLORIDE COTRANSPORTER 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; HEMOGLOBIN ALPHA CHAIN; HEMOGLOBIN BETA CHAIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; LONG NONCODING RNA LINC01186, HUMAN; PROSPERO-RELATED HOMEOBOX 1 PROTEIN; PROTEASOME; PSMB5 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SLC12A2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 16P; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; ERYTHROCYTE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROID PRECURSOR CELL; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEMATOCRIT; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RED BLOOD CELL DISTRIBUTION WIDTH; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS;

ALPHA-GLOBINS; BETA-GLOBINS; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; ERYTHROCYTES; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HEMOGLOBINS; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX; RNA, LONG NONCODING; SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 12, MEMBER 2; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS;

EID: 85018386745     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006760     Document Type: Article

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