Evaluation of 71 Coronary Artery Disease Risk Variants in a Multiethnic Cohort

Evaluation of 71 Coronary Artery Disease Risk Variants in a Multiethnic Cohort

BackgroundCoronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common cause of death worldwide. Previous studies have identified numerous common CHD susceptibility loci, with the vast majority identified in populations of European ancestry. How well these findings transfer to other racial/ethnic populations rem...

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Main Authors: Wangjing Ke, Kristin A. Rand, David V. Conti, Veronica W. Setiawan, Daniel O. Stram, Lynne Wilkens, Loic Le Marchand, Themistocles L. Assimes, Christopher A. Haiman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Subjects:
coronary heart disease
genome wide association study (GWAS)
multi-ethnic
African Americans
Latino American
Japanese Americans
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcvm.2018.00019/full

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