Daily Archives: April 16, 2016

Four Susceptibility Loci for Gallstone Disease Identified in a Meta-analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Amit D. Joshi, Charlotte Andersson, Stephan Buch, Stefan Stender, Raymond Noordam, Lu-Chen Weng, Peter E. Weeke, Paul L. Auer, Bernhard Boehm, Constance Chen, Hyon Choi, Gary Curhan, Joshua C. Denny, Immaculata De Vivo, John D. Eicher, David Ellingha

A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 280 cases identified the hepatic cholesterol transporter ABCG8 as a locus associated with risk for gallstone disease, but findings have not been reported from any other GWAS of this phenotype. We performed a la… Continue reading →

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Four Susceptibility Loci for Gallstone Disease Identified in a Meta-analysis of Genome-Wide Association Studies

Posted on April 16, 2016 by Amit D. Joshi, Charlotte Andersson, Stephan Buch, Stefan Stender, Raymond Noordam, Lu-Chen Weng, Peter E. Weeke, Paul L. Auer, Bernhard Boehm, Constance Chen, Hyon Choi, Gary Curhan, Joshua C. Denny, Immaculata De Vivo, John D. Eicher, David Ellingha

A genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 280 cases identified the hepatic cholesterol transporter ABCG8 as a locus associated with risk for gallstone disease, but findings have not been reported from any other GWAS of this phenotype. We performed a la… Continue reading →

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