Discovery, fine-mapping, and conditional analyses of genetic variants associated with C-reactive protein in multiethnic populations using the Metabochip in the Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) study

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 27, Issue 16, 2018, Pages 2940-2953

  Kocarnik, Jonathan M ^a,b   Richard, Melissa ^c   Graff, Misa ^d   Haessler, Jeffrey ^a   Bien, Stephanie ^a   Carlson, Chris ^a   Carty, Cara L ^e   Reiner, Alexander P ^a   Avery, Christy L ^d   Ballantyne, Christie M ^f   LaCroix, Andrea Z ^g   Assimes, Themistocles L ^h   Barbalic, Maja ⁱ   Pankratz, Nathan ^j   Tang, Weihong ^k   Tao, Ran ^l   Chen, Dongquan ^m   Talavera, Gregory A ⁿ   Daviglus, Martha L ^o   Chirinos Medina, Diana A ^p   Pereira, Rocio ^q   Nishimura, Katie ^a   Bůžková, Petra ^b   Best, Lyle G ^r   Ambite, José Luis ^s   Cheng, Iona ^t   Crawford, Dana C ^u   Hindorff, Lucia A ^v   Fornage, Myriam ^c,w   Heiss, Gerardo ^d   North, Kari E ^d   Haiman, Christopher A ^x   Peters, Ulrike ^a   Marchand, Loic Le ^y   Kooperberg, Charles ^a   more..

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d IL   (United States)

^e PATH   (United States)

^f BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^h STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^j Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology ^*  (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^l VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^m University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

ⁿ SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

^p NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^r MISSOURI BREAKS INDUSTRIES RESEARCH INC   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^u CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^v NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; ENOYL COENZYME A HYDRATASE; GLYCOPROTEIN; HACL1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; OLFML3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPASE A2 GROUP VI; PLA2G6 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALASKA NATIVE; AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENETIC MODEL; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HISPANIC; HNF1A GENE; HUMAN; IL1RN GENE; LEPR GENE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACIFIC ISLANDER; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; CAUCASIAN; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PROCEDURES;

C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; ENOYL-COA HYDRATASE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GLYCOPROTEINS; GROUP VI PHOSPHOLIPASES A2; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; MALE; METAGENOMICS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 85054997249     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddy211     Document Type: Article

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