The transferability of lipid loci across African, Asian and European cohorts

The transferability of lipid loci across African, Asian and European cohorts

The majority of published GWAS was performed in European ancestry populations. Here, Kuchenbaecker et al., test to which extent lipid loci are shared and find that the major lipid loci are mostly transferrable between Europeans and Asians while there are notable exceptions for African populations.

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Main Authors: Karoline Kuchenbaecker, Nikita Telkar, Theresa Reiker, Robin G. Walters, Kuang Lin, Anders Eriksson, Deepti Gurdasani, Arthur Gilly, Lorraine Southam, Emmanouil Tsafantakis, Maria Karaleftheri, Janet Seeley, Anatoli Kamali, Gershim Asiki, Iona Y. Millwood, Michael Holmes, Huaidong Du, Yu Guo, Meena Kumari, George Dedoussis, Liming Li, Zhengming Chen, Manjinder S. Sandhu, Eleftheria Zeggini, Understanding Society Scientific Group
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Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/442fbc04a95d4e22903a961fed36fb1d
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