Meta-analysis of 28,141 individuals identifies common variants within five new loci that influence uric acid concentrations.

Elevated serum uric acid levels cause gout and are a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. To investigate the polygenetic basis of serum uric acid levels, we conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association scans from 14 studies totalling 28,141 participants of European descent, r...

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Principais autores:	Melanie Kolz, Toby Johnson, Serena Sanna, Alexander Teumer, Veronique Vitart, Markus Perola, Massimo Mangino, Eva Albrecht, Chris Wallace, Martin Farrall, Asa Johansson, Dale R Nyholt, Yurii Aulchenko, Jacques S Beckmann, Sven Bergmann, Murielle Bochud, Morris Brown, Harry Campbell, EUROSPAN Consortium, John Connell, Anna Dominiczak, Georg Homuth, Claudia Lamina, Mark I McCarthy, ENGAGE Consortium, Thomas Meitinger, Vincent Mooser, Patricia Munroe, Matthias Nauck, John Peden, Holger Prokisch, Perttu Salo, Veikko Salomaa, Nilesh J Samani, David Schlessinger, Manuela Uda, Uwe Völker, Gérard Waeber, Dawn Waterworth, Rui Wang-Sattler, Alan F Wright, Jerzy Adamski, John B Whitfield, Ulf Gyllensten, James F Wilson, Igor Rudan, Peter Pramstaller, Hugh Watkins, PROCARDIS Consortium, Angela Doering, H-Erich Wichmann, KORA Study, Tim D Spector, Leena Peltonen, Henry Völzke, Ramaiah Nagaraja, Peter Vollenweider, Mark Caulfield, WTCCC, Thomas Illig, Christian Gieger
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2009-06-01
coleção:	PLoS Genetics
Acesso em linha:	https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1000504&type=printable
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