Genome-wide association study of coronary heart disease and its risk factors in 8,090 African Americans: the NHLBI CARe Project.

Genome-wide association study of coronary heart disease and its risk factors in 8,090 African Americans: the NHLBI CARe Project.

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of mortality in African Americans. To identify common genetic polymorphisms associated with CHD and its risk factors (LDL- and HDL-cholesterol (LDL-C and HDL-C), hypertension, smoking, and type-2 diabetes) in individuals of African ancestry, we perfo...

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Main Authors: Guillaume Lettre, Cameron D Palmer, Taylor Young, Kenechi G Ejebe, Hooman Allayee, Emelia J Benjamin, Franklyn Bennett, Donald W Bowden, Aravinda Chakravarti, Al Dreisbach, Deborah N Farlow, Aaron R Folsom, Myriam Fornage, Terrence Forrester, Ervin Fox, Christopher A Haiman, Jaana Hartiala, Tamara B Harris, Stanley L Hazen, Susan R Heckbert, Brian E Henderson, Joel N Hirschhorn, Brendan J Keating, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Emma Larkin, Mingyao Li, Megan E Rudock, Colin A McKenzie, James B Meigs, Yang A Meng, Tom H Mosley, Anne B Newman, Christopher H Newton-Cheh, Dina N Paltoo, George J Papanicolaou, Nick Patterson, Wendy S Post, Bruce M Psaty, Atif N Qasim, Liming Qu, Daniel J Rader, Susan Redline, Muredach P Reilly, Alexander P Reiner, Stephen S Rich, Jerome I Rotter, Yongmei Liu, Peter Shrader, David S Siscovick, W H Wilson Tang, Herman A Taylor, Russell P Tracy, Ramachandran S Vasan, Kevin M Waters, Rainford Wilks, James G Wilson, Richard R Fabsitz, Stacey B Gabriel, Sekar Kathiresan, Eric Boerwinkle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-02-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/21347282/?tool=EBI

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