Genome-wide association study identifies variants in casein kinase II (CSNK2A2) to be associated with leukocyte telomere length in a Punjabi Sikh diabetic cohort.
Saxena R, Bjonnes A, Prescott J, Dib P, Natt P, Lane J, Lerner M, Cooper JA, Ye Y, Li KW, Maubaret CG, Codd V, Brackett D, Mirabello L, Kraft P, Dinney CP, Stowell D, Peyton M, Ralhan S, Wander GS, Mehra NK, Salpea KD, Gu J, Wu X, Mangino M, Hunter DJ, De Vivo I, Humphries SE, Samani NJ, Spector TD, Savage SA, Sanghera DK.
Saxena R, et al.
Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2014 Jun;7(3):287-95. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.113.000412. Epub 2014 May 3.
Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2014.
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On combined discovery and stage 1 meta-analysis (n= 4013), we identified a novel relative telomere length locus at chromosome 16q21 represented by an intronic variant (rs74019828) in the CSNK2A2 gene (beta=-0.38; P=4.510(-8)). We further tested 3 top variants by genotyping …
On combined discovery and stage 1 meta-analysis (n= 4013), we identified a novel relative telomere length locus at chromosome 16q21 represen …