Common variants of FUT2 are associated with plasma vitamin B12 levels.

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Published in Nat Genet on September 07, 2008

Authors

Aditi Hazra1, Peter Kraft, Jacob Selhub, Edward L Giovannucci, Gilles Thomas, Robert N Hoover, Stephen J Chanock, David J Hunter

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Program in Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.

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