supported by grants from Natural Science Foundation of China(30600364,30470534,30771222,30731160618,30230210,and 81101655);the grant from the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(2011M501282)
Objective Obesity is becoming a worldwide health problem. The genome wide association (GWA) study particularly for body mass index (BMI) has not been successfully conducted in the Chinese. In order to identify nov...
supported by grants from the Natural Science Foundation of China (No.30600364,30470534,and 30230210);the NSFC-Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Joint Health Research Initia-tive Proposal (No.30811120436);the NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme (No.30731160618);Shanghai Leading Academic Discipline Project (No.S30501);supported by grants from NIH (No.P50AR055081,R01AG026564,R01AR050496,and R01AR057049);the Dickson/Missouri endowment
Quantitative traits often underlie risk for complex diseases. Many studies collect multiple correlated quantitative phenotypes and perform univariate analyses on each of them respectively. However, this strategy may n...
The work was partially supported by the grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 30600364, 30470534, and 30230210) and the Scientific Research Fund of the Hunan Provincial Education Department (No. 05B037). It was also partially supported by the LB595 grant from the State of Nebraska, USA. HWD was partially supported by grants from the US National Institutes of Health (Nos. K01 AR02170-01A2, R01 GM60402, 5R01 AR050496-02, and R21 AG027110-01A1)
A key assumption in studying mRNA expression is that it is informative in the prediction of protein expression. However, only limited studies have explored the mRNA-protein expression correlation in yeast or human tis...
Project partially supported by the Scientific Research Fund of Hu-nan Provincial Educalion Department (No 05B037, 04B039);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No 30600364, 30230210, 30470534);HWD was partially supported by NIH grants (No KO1 AR02170-O1A2, RO1 GM60402 and 5801 AR050496-02).
Aim: To simultaneously investigate the contribution of the alpha 1 chain of collagen type 1 (COLIA1) and alpha2-HS-glycoprotein (AHSG) genes to the variation of bone geometric parameters in both Caucasians and Ch...