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Large scale replication analysis of loci associated with lipid concentrations in a Japanese population.
Journal of medical genetics - 1 Jun 2009
Nakayama K, Bayasgalan T, Yamanaka K, Kumada M, Gotoh T, Utsumi N, Yanagisawa Y, Okayama M, Kajii E, Ishibashi S, Iwamoto S
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recent genome wide association studies discovered seven novel loci that influence plasma concentrations of triglycerides, high density lipoprotein (HDL) and low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol in Europeans. To date, large scale replication studies using populations with known di...
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