Fine-mapping, novel loci identification, and SNP association transferability in a genome-wide association study of QRS duration in African Americans

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2016, Pages 4350-4368

  Evans, Daniel S ^a   Avery, Christy L ^b   Nalls, Mike A ^c   Li, Guo ^d   Barnard, John ^e   Smith, Erin N ^f   Tanaka, Toshiko ^c   Butler, Anne M ^b   Buxbaum, Sarah G ^g   Alonso, Alvaro ^h   Arking, Dan E ⁱ   Berenson, Gerald S ^j   Bis, Joshua C ^d   Buyske, Steven ^k   Carty, Cara L ^l   Chen, Wei ^m   Chung, Mina K ^e,n   Cummings, Steven R ^a   Deo, Rajat ^o   Eaton, Charles B ^p   Fox, Ervin R ^q   Heckbert, Susan R ^d,r,s   Heiss, Gerardo ^b   Hindorff, Lucia A ^t   Hsueh, Wen Chi ^u   Isaacs, Aaron ^v,w   Jamshidi, Yalda ^x   Kerr, Kathleen F ^r   Liu, Felix ^y   Liu, Yongmei ^z   Lohman, Kurt K ^z   Magnani, Jared W ^aa   Maher, Joseph F ^q   Mehra, Reena ^e,n   Meng, Yan A ^ab   Musani, Solomon K ^ac   Newton Cheh, Christopher ^ab,ad   North, Kari E ^b,ae   Psaty, Bruce M ^d,r,s   Redline, Susan ^ad   Rotter, Jerome I ^af   Schnabel, Renate B ^ag   Schork, Nicholas J ^ah   Shohet, Ralph V ^ai   Singleton, Andrew B ^c   Smith, Jonathan D ^e   Soliman, Elsayed Z ^z   Srinivasan, Sathanur R ^m   Taylor, Herman A ^q   van Wagoner, David R ^e   Wilson, James G ^q   Young, Taylor ^ab   Zhang, Zhu Ming ^z   Zonderman, Alan B ^c   Evans, Michele K ^c   Ferrucci, Luigi ^c   Murray, Sarah S ^aj   Tranah, Gregory J ^a   Whitsel, Eric A ^b,ak   Reiner, Alex P ^l,r   Sotoodehnia, Nona ^d   more..

^a CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^g JACKSON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^j TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^k RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^m TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ CLEVELAND CLINIC LERNER COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^p BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^s CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^t NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^u NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^v ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^w MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^x ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^y UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^z WAKE FOREST SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^ab MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^ad HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^af HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^ag UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER HAMBURG   (Germany)

^ah J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^ai UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^aj UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHANNEL; SCN5A PROTEIN, HUMAN; SODIUM CHANNEL NAV1.5;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 1; CHROMOSOME 18; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE SET ENRICHMENT ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING; HAPLOTYPE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART TISSUE; HUMAN; INTRON; META ANALYSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; QRS INTERVAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALLELE; CARDIAC MUSCLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEART VENTRICLE; MALE; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALLELES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIUM; NAV1.5 VOLTAGE-GATED SODIUM CHANNEL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 85020862993     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/HMG/DDW284     Document Type: Article

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