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This article is part of the supplement: The Framingham Heart Study 100,000 single nucleotide polymorphisms resource

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The Framingham Heart Study 100K SNP genome-wide association study resource: overview of 17 phenotype working group reports

L Adrienne Cupples1,2*, Heather T Arruda1, Emelia J Benjamin1,2,3,4, Ralph B D'Agostino1,2,5, Serkalem Demissie1,2, Anita L DeStefano1,2,3, Josée Dupuis1,2, Kathleen M Falls6, Caroline S Fox1,7, Daniel J Gottlieb3,8, Diddahally R Govindaraju1,3, Chao-Yu Guo1,5, Nancy L Heard-Costa1,3, Shih-Jen Hwang1,7, Sekar Kathiresan1,10,11,9, Douglas P Kiel12, Jason M Laramie13,3, Martin G Larson1,5, Daniel Levy1,3,7, Chun-Yu Liu2, Kathryn L Lunetta1,2, Matthew D Mailman14, Alisa K Manning2, James B Meigs15,16, Joanne M Murabito1,3, Christopher Newton-Cheh1,11,9, George T O'Connor1,3, Christopher J O'Donnell1,11,7, Mona Pandey1, Sudha Seshadri1,3, Ramachandran S Vasan1,3,4, Zhen Y Wang14, Jemma B Wilk1,3, Philip A Wolf1,3, Qiong Yang1,2 and Larry D Atwood1,2,3

Author Affiliations

1 National Heart Lung and Blood Institute's Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, MA, USA

2 School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

3 School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

4 Whitaker Cardiovascular Institute, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

5 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

6 Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

7 National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

8 VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA

9 Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

10 Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

11 Cardiology Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

12 Hebrew SeniorLife: Institute for Aging Research and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

13 Bioinformatics Program, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA

14 National Center for Biotechnology Information, Bethesda, MD, USA

15 General Medicine Division, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

16 Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

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BMC Medical Genetics 2007, 8(Suppl 1):S1 doi:10.1186/1471-2350-8-S1-S1

Published: 19 September 2007

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Phenotypes for population-based GEE analyses.

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Phenotypes for family-based FBAT analyses.

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Phenotypes for linkage analyses.

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