Genome-wide association study for Chagas Cardiomyopathy identify a new risk locus on chromosome 18 associated with an immune-related protein and transcriptional signature
<h4>Background</h4> Chronic Chagas Cardiomyopathy (CCC) usually develops between 10 and 20 years after the first parasitic infection and is one of the leading causes of end-stage heart failure in Latin America. Despite the great inter-individual variability in CCC susceptibility (only 30...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2022-10-01
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Series: | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases |
Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9550069/?tool=EBI |