Local Ancestry and Clinical Cardiovascular Events Among African Americans From the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

Local Ancestry and Clinical Cardiovascular Events Among African Americans From the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

BackgroundLocal ancestry in relation to clinical cardiovascular events (CVEs) among African Americans can provide insight into their genetic susceptibility to the disease. Methods and ResultsWe examined local European ancestry (LEA) association with CVEs among 3000 African Americans from the Atheros...

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Main Authors: Aditi Shendre, Marguerite R. Irvin, Howard Wiener, Degui Zhi, Nita A. Limdi, Edgar T. Overton, Sadeep Shrestha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-04-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
admixture mapping
association studies
cardiovascular events
genetic epidemiology
genetics
genome‐wide association scan
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.116.004739

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