Nature Communications (Feb 2017)

Connecting genetic risk to disease end points through the human blood plasma proteome

  • Karsten Suhre,
  • Matthias Arnold,
  • Aditya Mukund Bhagwat,
  • Richard J. Cotton,
  • Rudolf Engelke,
  • Johannes Raffler,
  • Hina Sarwath,
  • Gaurav Thareja,
  • Annika Wahl,
  • Robert Kirk DeLisle,
  • Larry Gold,
  • Marija Pezer,
  • Gordan Lauc,
  • Mohammed A. El-Din Selim,
  • Dennis O. Mook-Kanamori,
  • Eman K. Al-Dous,
  • Yasmin A. Mohamoud,
  • Joel Malek,
  • Konstantin Strauch,
  • Harald Grallert,
  • Annette Peters,
  • Gabi Kastenmüller,
  • Christian Gieger,
  • Johannes Graumann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14357
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Individual genetic variation can affect the levels of protein in blood, but detailed data sets linking these two types of data are rare. Here, the authors carry out a genome-wide association study of levels of over a thousand different proteins, and describe many new SNP-protein interactions.