The UK Biobank resource with deep phenotyping and genomic data

Nature

Volumn 562, Issue 7726, 2018, Pages 203-209

  Bycroft, Clare ^a   Freeman, Colin ^a   Petkova, Desislava ^a,j   Band, Gavin ^a   Elliott, Lloyd T ^b   Sharp, Kevin ^b   Motyer, Allan ^c   Vukcevic, Damjan ^c,d   Delaneau, Olivier ^e   O’Connell, Jared ^f   Cortes, Adrian ^a,g   Welsh, Samantha ^h   Young, Alan ⁱ   Effingham, Mark ^h   McVean, Gil ^a,i   Leslie, Stephen ^c,d   Allen, Naomi ⁱ   Donnelly, Peter ^a,b   Marchini, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MURDOCH CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^f Illumina   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^h UK BIOBANK   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^j PROCTER AND GAMBLE COMPANY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HLA ANTIGEN; LEUKOCYTE ANTIGEN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ANTIGEN; DATA; DATABASE; GENOME; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; RELATEDNESS;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOBANK; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEIGHT; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED KINGDOM; WHOLE GENOME SEQUENCING; ADULT; AGED; ANCESTRY GROUP; BLOOD; BODY HEIGHT; BRAIN; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORD; FACTUAL DATABASE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY CONTROL; URINE;

UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELES; BIOMARKERS; BODY HEIGHT; BRAIN; COHORT STUDIES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DATABASES, GENETIC; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; QUALITY CONTROL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 85054630384     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0579-z     Document Type: Article

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