A genome-wide association study identifies three loci associated with mean platelet volume.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on December 24, 2008

Authors

Christa Meisinger1, Holger Prokisch, Christian Gieger, Nicole Soranzo, Divya Mehta, Dieter Rosskopf, Peter Lichtner, Norman Klopp, Jonathan Stephens, Nicholas A Watkins, Panos Deloukas, Andreas Greinacher, Wolfgang Koenig, Matthias Nauck, Christian Rimmbach, Henry Völzke, Annette Peters, Thomas Illig, Willem H Ouwehand, Thomas Meitinger, H-Erich Wichmann, Angela Döring

Author Affiliations

1: Institute of Epidemiology, Helmholtz Zentrum München, German Research Center for Environmental Health, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany.

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