A large electronic-health-record-based genome-wide study of serum lipids

Nature Genetics

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 401-413

  Hoffmann, Thomas J ^a,b   Theusch, Elizabeth ^c   Haldar, Tanushree ^a   Ranatunga, Dilrini K ^d   Jorgenson, Eric ^d   Medina, Marisa W ^c   Kvale, Mark N ^a   Kwok, Pui Yan ^a   Schaefer, Catherine ^d   Krauss, Ronald M ^c   Iribarren, Carlos ^d   Risch, Neil ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OAKLAND RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EAST ASIAN; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL LEVEL; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL LEVEL; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; ADULT; AGED; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETICS; LIPID METABOLISM; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, GENETIC; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPIDS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 85042876923     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41588-018-0064-5     Document Type: Article

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