| Literature DB >> 17767159 |
Stephan Menzel1, Chad Garner, Ivo Gut, Fumihiko Matsuda, Masao Yamaguchi, Simon Heath, Mario Foglio, Diana Zelenika, Anne Boland, Helen Rooks, Steve Best, Tim D Spector, Martin Farrall, Mark Lathrop, Swee Lay Thein.
Abstract
F cells measure the presence of fetal hemoglobin, a heritable quantitative trait in adults that accounts for substantial phenotypic diversity of sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia. We applied a genome-wide association mapping strategy to individuals with contrasting extreme trait values and mapped a new F cell quantitative trait locus to BCL11A, which encodes a zinc-finger protein, on chromosome 2p15. The 2p15 BCL11A quantitative trait locus accounts for 15.1% of the trait variance.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 17767159 DOI: 10.1038/ng2108
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Genet ISSN: 1061-4036 Impact factor: 38.330