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Meta-analysis of 28,141 individuals identifies common variants within five new loci that influence uric acid concentrations.

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Elevated serum uric acid levels cause gout and are a risk factor for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. To investigate the polygenetic basis of serum uric acid levels, we conducted a meta-analysis of genome-wide association scans from 14 studies totalling 28,141 participants of European descent, resulting in identification of 954 SNPs distributed across nine loci that exceeded the threshold of genome-wide significance, five of which are novel. Overall, the common variants associated with se...

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10.1371/journal.pgen.1000504

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Public Library of Science
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PLoS genetics More from this journal
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5
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6
Article number:
e1000504
Publication date:
2009-06-01
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1553-7404
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1553-7390
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English
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18608
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2012-12-19

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