The metabochip, a custom genotyping array for genetic studies of metabolic, cardiovascular, and anthropometric traits.

The metabochip, a custom genotyping array for genetic studies of metabolic, cardiovascular, and anthropometric traits.

Genome-wide association studies have identified hundreds of loci for type 2 diabetes, coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction, as well as for related traits such as body mass index, glucose and insulin levels, lipid levels, and blood pressure. These studies also have pointed to thousands o...

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Main Authors: Benjamin F Voight, Hyun Min Kang, Jun Ding, Cameron D Palmer, Carlo Sidore, Peter S Chines, Noël P Burtt, Christian Fuchsberger, Yanming Li, Jeanette Erdmann, Timothy M Frayling, Iris M Heid, Anne U Jackson, Toby Johnson, Tuomas O Kilpeläinen, Cecilia M Lindgren, Andrew P Morris, Inga Prokopenko, Joshua C Randall, Richa Saxena, Nicole Soranzo, Elizabeth K Speliotes, Tanya M Teslovich, Eleanor Wheeler, Jared Maguire, Melissa Parkin, Simon Potter, N William Rayner, Neil Robertson, Kathleen Stirrups, Wendy Winckler, Serena Sanna, Antonella Mulas, Ramaiah Nagaraja, Francesco Cucca, Inês Barroso, Panos Deloukas, Ruth J F Loos, Sekar Kathiresan, Patricia B Munroe, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Arne Pfeufer, Nilesh J Samani, Heribert Schunkert, Joel N Hirschhorn, David Altshuler, Mark I McCarthy, Gonçalo R Abecasis, Michael Boehnke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/22876189/pdf/?tool=EBI

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