Seventy-five genetic loci influencing the human red blood cell.

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Published in Nature on December 05, 2012

Authors

Pim van der Harst1, Weihua Zhang, Irene Mateo Leach, Augusto Rendon, Niek Verweij, Joban Sehmi, Dirk S Paul, Ulrich Elling, Hooman Allayee, Xinzhong Li, Aparna Radhakrishnan, Sian-Tsung Tan, Katrin Voss, Christian X Weichenberger, Cornelis A Albers, Abtehale Al-Hussani, Folkert W Asselbergs, Marina Ciullo, Fabrice Danjou, Christian Dina, Tõnu Esko, David M Evans, Lude Franke, Martin Gögele, Jaana Hartiala, Micha Hersch, Hilma Holm, Jouke-Jan Hottenga, Stavroula Kanoni, Marcus E Kleber, Vasiliki Lagou, Claudia Langenberg, Lorna M Lopez, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Olle Melander, Federico Murgia, Ilja M Nolte, Paul F O'Reilly, Sandosh Padmanabhan, Afshin Parsa, Nicola Pirastu, Eleonora Porcu, Laura Portas, Inga Prokopenko, Janina S Ried, So-Youn Shin, Clara S Tang, Alexander Teumer, Michela Traglia, Sheila Ulivi, Harm-Jan Westra, Jian Yang, Jing Hua Zhao, Franco Anni, Abdel Abdellaoui, Antony Attwood, Beverley Balkau, Stefania Bandinelli, François Bastardot, Beben Benyamin, Bernhard O Boehm, William O Cookson, Debashish Das, Paul I W de Bakker, Rudolf A de Boer, Eco J C de Geus, Marleen H de Moor, Maria Dimitriou, Francisco S Domingues, Angela Döring, Gunnar Engström, Gudmundur Ingi Eyjolfsson, Luigi Ferrucci, Krista Fischer, Renzo Galanello, Stephen F Garner, Bernd Genser, Quince D Gibson, Giorgia Girotto, Daniel Fannar Gudbjartsson, Sarah E Harris, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Claire E Hastie, Bo Hedblad, Thomas Illig, Jennifer Jolley, Mika Kähönen, Ido P Kema, John P Kemp, Liming Liang, Heather Lloyd-Jones, Ruth J F Loos, Stuart Meacham, Sarah E Medland, Christa Meisinger, Yasin Memari, Evelin Mihailov, Kathy Miller, Miriam F Moffatt, Matthias Nauck, Maria Novatchkova, Teresa Nutile, Isleifur Olafsson, Pall T Onundarson, Debora Parracciani, Brenda W Penninx, Lucia Perseu, Antonio Piga, Giorgio Pistis, Anneli Pouta, Ursula Puc, Olli Raitakari, Susan M Ring, Antonietta Robino, Daniela Ruggiero, Aimo Ruokonen, Aude Saint-Pierre, Cinzia Sala, Andres Salumets, Jennifer Sambrook, Hein Schepers, Carsten Oliver Schmidt, Herman H W Silljé, Rob Sladek, Johannes H Smit, John M Starr, Jonathan Stephens, Patrick Sulem, Toshiko Tanaka, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Vinicius Tragante, Wiek H van Gilst, L Joost van Pelt, Dirk J van Veldhuisen, Uwe Völker, John B Whitfield, Gonneke Willemsen, Bernhard R Winkelmann, Gerald Wirnsberger, Ale Algra, Francesco Cucca, Adamo Pio d'Adamo, John Danesh, Ian J Deary, Anna F Dominiczak, Paul Elliott, Paolo Fortina, Philippe Froguel, Paolo Gasparini, Andreas Greinacher, Stanley L Hazen, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Kay Tee Khaw, Terho Lehtimäki, Winfried Maerz, Nicholas G Martin, Andres Metspalu, Braxton D Mitchell, Grant W Montgomery, Carmel Moore, Gerjan Navis, Mario Pirastu, Peter P Pramstaller, Ramiro Ramirez-Solis, Eric Schadt, James Scott, Alan R Shuldiner, George Davey Smith, J Gustav Smith, Harold Snieder, Rossella Sorice, Tim D Spector, Kari Stefansson, Michael Stumvoll, W H Wilson Tang, Daniela Toniolo, Anke Tönjes, Peter M Visscher, Peter Vollenweider, Nicholas J Wareham, Bruce H R Wolffenbuttel, Dorret I Boomsma, Jacques S Beckmann, George V Dedoussis, Panos Deloukas, Manuel A Ferreira, Serena Sanna, Manuela Uda, Andrew A Hicks, Josef Martin Penninger, Christian Gieger, Jaspal S Kooner, Willem H Ouwehand, Nicole Soranzo, John C Chambers

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, 9700 RB Groningen, The Netherlands. p.van.der.harst@umcg.nl

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