Discovery and fine-mapping of loci associated with MUFAs through trans-ethnic meta-analysis in Chinese and European populations

MUFAs are unsaturated FAs with one double bond and are derived from endogenous synthesis and dietary intake. Accumulating evidence has suggested that plasma and erythrocyte MUFA levels are associated with cardiometabolic disorders, including CVD, T2D, and metabolic syndrome (MS). Previous genome-wid...

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Main Authors: Hu, Y, Tanaka, T, Zhu, J, Guan, W, Wu, J, Psaty, B, McKnight, B, King, I, Sun, Q, Richard, M, Manichaikul, A, Frazier-Wood, A, Kabagambe, E, Hopkins, P, Ordovas, J, Ferrucci, L, Bandinelli, S, Arnett, D, Chen, Y, Liang, S, Siscovick, D, Tsai, M, Rich, S, Fornage, M, Hu, F, Rimm, E, Jensen, M, Lemaitre, R, Mozaffarian, D, Steffen, L, Morris, A, Li, H, Lin, X
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2017