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Genome-wide association study identified CNP12587 region underlying height variation in Chinese females.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Zhang Yin-Ping, Deng Fei-Yan, Yang Tie-Lin, Zhang Feng, Chen Xiang-Ding, Shen Hui, Zhu Xue-Zheng, Tian Qing, Deng Hong-Wen
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INTRODUCTION: Human height is a highly heritable trait considered as an important factor for health. There has been limited success in identifying the genetic factors underlying height variation. We aim to identify sequence variants associated with adult height by a genome-wide association study of copy number variants (CNVs) in Chinese. METHODS: Genome-wide CNV association analyses were conducted in 1,625...
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