Targeted sequencing of candidate genes of dyslipidemia in Punjabi Sikhs: Population-specific rare variants in GCKR promote ectopic fat deposition

• Dharambir K. Sanghera ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Dharambir-sanghera@ouhsc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Oklahoma Center for Neuroscience, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America, Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7203-8655

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• Ruth Hopkins,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Megan W. Malone-Perez,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Cynthia Bejar,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Chengcheng Tan,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Genetics, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Huda Mussa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Paul Whitby,

  Roles Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Ben Fowler,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Imaging Core Facility, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Chinthapally V. Rao,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Center for Cancer Prevention and Drug Development, Stephenson Cancer Center, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• KarMing A. Fung,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• Stan Lightfoot,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, United States of America

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• J. Kimble Frazer

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, College of Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2936-2817

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