Following-up genome-wide association study signals: lessons learned from Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) Consortium Targeted Sequencing Study

Affiliations

¹ From the Human Genetics Center and Division of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (E.B.); Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (E.B.); and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle (S.R.H.). eric.boerwinkle@uth.tmc.edu.
² From the Human Genetics Center and Division of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (E.B.); Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (E.B.); and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle (S.R.H.).

Eric Boerwinkle et al. Circ Cardiovasc Genet. 2014 Jun.

. 2014 Jun;7(3):332-4.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.113.000078.

¹ From the Human Genetics Center and Division of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (E.B.); Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (E.B.); and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle (S.R.H.). eric.boerwinkle@uth.tmc.edu.
² From the Human Genetics Center and Division of Epidemiology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (E.B.); Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (E.B.); and Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle (S.R.H.).

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Keywords: genetics; genome-wide association study; genomics; humans.

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