Large-scale gene-centric meta-analysis across 32 studies identifies multiple lipid loci.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on October 11, 2012

Authors

Folkert W Asselbergs1, Yiran Guo, Erik P A van Iperen, Suthesh Sivapalaratnam, Vinicius Tragante, Matthew B Lanktree, Leslie A Lange, Berta Almoguera, Yolande E Appelman, John Barnard, Jens Baumert, Amber L Beitelshees, Tushar R Bhangale, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Tom R Gaunt, Yan Gong, Jemma C Hopewell, Toby Johnson, Marcus E Kleber, Taimour Y Langaee, Mingyao Li, Yun R Li, Kiang Liu, Caitrin W McDonough, Matthijs F L Meijs, Rita P S Middelberg, Kiran Musunuru, Christopher P Nelson, Jeffery R O'Connell, Sandosh Padmanabhan, James S Pankow, Nathan Pankratz, Suzanne Rafelt, Ramakrishnan Rajagopalan, Simon P R Romaine, Nicholas J Schork, Jonathan Shaffer, Haiqing Shen, Erin N Smith, Sam E Tischfield, Peter J van der Most, Jana V van Vliet-Ostaptchouk, Niek Verweij, Kelly A Volcik, Li Zhang, Kent R Bailey, Kristian M Bailey, Florianne Bauer, Jolanda M A Boer, Peter S Braund, Amber Burt, Paul R Burton, Sarah G Buxbaum, Wei Chen, Rhonda M Cooper-Dehoff, L Adrienne Cupples, Jonas S deJong, Christian Delles, David Duggan, Myriam Fornage, Clement E Furlong, Nicole Glazer, John G Gums, Claire Hastie, Michael V Holmes, Thomas Illig, Susan A Kirkland, Mika Kivimaki, Ronald Klein, Barbara E Klein, Charles Kooperberg, Kandice Kottke-Marchant, Meena Kumari, Andrea Z LaCroix, Laya Mallela, Gurunathan Murugesan, Jose Ordovas, Willem H Ouwehand, Wendy S Post, Richa Saxena, Hubert Scharnagl, Pamela J Schreiner, Tina Shah, Denis C Shields, Daichi Shimbo, Sathanur R Srinivasan, Ronald P Stolk, Daniel I Swerdlow, Herman A Taylor, Eric J Topol, Elina Toskala, Joost L van Pelt, Jessica van Setten, Salim Yusuf, John C Whittaker, A H Zwinderman, LifeLines Cohort Study, Sonia S Anand, Anthony J Balmforth, Gerald S Berenson, Connie R Bezzina, Bernhard O Boehm, Eric Boerwinkle, Juan P Casas, Mark J Caulfield, Robert Clarke, John M Connell, Karen J Cruickshanks, Karina W Davidson, Ian N M Day, Paul I W de Bakker, Pieter A Doevendans, Anna F Dominiczak, Alistair S Hall, Catharina A Hartman, Christian Hengstenberg, Hans L Hillege, Marten H Hofker, Steve E Humphries, Gail P Jarvik, Julie A Johnson, Bernhard M Kaess, Sekar Kathiresan, Wolfgang Koenig, Debbie A Lawlor, Winfried März, Olle Melander, Braxton D Mitchell, Grant W Montgomery, Patricia B Munroe, Sarah S Murray, Stephen J Newhouse, N Charlotte Onland-Moret, Neil Poulter, Bruce Psaty, Susan Redline, Stephen S Rich, Jerome I Rotter, Heribert Schunkert, Peter Sever, Alan R Shuldiner, Roy L Silverstein, Alice Stanton, Barbara Thorand, Mieke D Trip, Michael Y Tsai, Pim van der Harst, Ellen van der Schoot, Yvonne T van der Schouw, W M Monique Verschuren, Hugh Watkins, Arthur A M Wilde, Bruce H R Wolffenbuttel, John B Whitfield, G Kees Hovingh, Christie M Ballantyne, Cisca Wijmenga, Muredach P Reilly, Nicholas G Martin, James G Wilson, Daniel J Rader, Nilesh J Samani, Alex P Reiner, Robert A Hegele, John J P Kastelein, Aroon D Hingorani, Philippa J Talmud, Hakon Hakonarson, Clara C Elbers, Brendan J Keating, Fotios Drenos

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cardiology, Division of Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.

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