Project name: Homo sapiens

Description: Metabolic Syndrome (MetS) is a strong predictor for diabetes and cardiovascular disease and is defined by a constellation of phenotypes including increased and adverse body fat distribution, insulin resistance, abnormalities in lipids and lipoproteins, malfunctional cardiovascular performance, and abnormal levels of adipokines and cytokines. We assayed in a subset of our family cohort phentoyped for MetS phentoypes, the genome-wde transcript levels using the Illumina Human WG-6 v3 expression arrays.Overall design: Genome-wide gene expression was assayed in members of families that originally contribute to linkage signals in a previous genome-wide linkage scans for multiple MetS phenotypes.

Data type: Transcriptome or Gene expression

Sample scope: Multiisolate

Relevance: Medical

Last updated: 2013-04-11