Pharmacogenetic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of LDL cholesterol response to statins

Statins effectively lower LDL cholesterol levels in large studies and the observed interindividual response variability may be partially explained by genetic variation. Here we perform a pharmacogenetic meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in studies addressing the LDL cholesterol...

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Huvudupphovsmän: Postmus, I, Trompet, S, Deshmukh, H, Barnes, MR, Li, X, Warren, H, Chasman, D, Zhou, K, Arsenault, B, Donnelly, L, Wiggins, K, Avery, C, Griffin, P, Feng, Q, Taylor, K, Li, G, Evans, D, Smith, A, De Keyser, C, Johnson, A, De Craen, A, Stott, D, Buckley, B, Ford, I, Westendorp, R, Slagboom, P, Sattar, N, Munroe, P, Sever, P, Poulter, N, Stanton, A, Shields, D, O'Brien, E, Shaw-Hawkins, S, Chen, Y, Nickerson, D, Smith, J, Dubé, M, Boekholdt, S, Hovingh, G, Kastelein, J, McKeigue, P, Betteridge, J, Neil, A, Durrington, P, Doney, A, Carr, F, Morris, A, McCarthy, M, Groop, L, Ahlqvist, E, Bis, J, Rice, K, Smith, N, Lumley, T, Whitsel, E, Stürmer, T, Boerwinkle, E, Ngwa, J, O'Donnell, C, Vasan, R, Wei, W, Wilke, R, Liu, C, Sun, F, Guo, X, Heckbert, SR, Post, W, Sotoodehnia, N, Arnold, A, Stafford, J, Ding, J, Herrington, D, Kritchevsky, S, Eiriksdottir, G, Launer, L, Harris, T, Chu, A, Giulianini, F, Macfadyen, J, Barratt, B, Nyberg, F, Stricker, B, Uitterlinden, A, Hofman, A, Rivadeneira, F, Emilsson, V, Franco, O, Ridker, P, Gudnason, V, Liu, Y, Denny, J, Ballantyne, C, Rotter, J, Adrienne Cupples, L, Psaty, B, Palmer, C, Tardif, J, Colhoun, H, Hitman, G, Krauss, R, Wouter Jukema, J, Caulfield, M, Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium
Materialtyp: Journal article
Språk:English
Publicerad: Springer Nature 2014