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SUBMITTER: Hodonsky CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5428979 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hodonsky Chani J CJ Jain Deepti D Schick Ursula M UM Morrison Jean V JV Brown Lisa L McHugh Caitlin P CP Schurmann Claudia C Chen Diane D DD Liu Yong Mei YM Auer Paul L PL Laurie Cecilia A CA Taylor Kent D KD Browning Brian L BL Li Yun Y Papanicolaou George G Rotter Jerome I JI Kurita Ryo R Nakamura Yukio Y Browning Sharon R SR Loos Ruth J F RJF North Kari E KE Laurie Cathy C CC Thornton Timothy A TA Pankratz Nathan N Bauer Daniel E DE Sofer Tamar T Reiner Alex P AP
PLoS genetics 20170428 4
Prior GWAS have identified loci associated with red blood cell (RBC) traits in populations of European, African, and Asian ancestry. These studies have not included individuals with an Amerindian ancestral background, such as Hispanics/Latinos, nor evaluated the full spectrum of genomic variation beyond single nucleotide variants. Using a custom genotyping array enriched for Amerindian ancestral content and 1000 Genomes imputation, we performed GWAS in 12,502 participants of Hispanic Community H ...[more]