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Heritability of subclinical atherosclerosis in Latino families ascertained through a hypertensive parent.
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 1 May 2002
Xiang Anny H, Azen Stanley P, Buchanan Thomas A, Raffel Leslie J, Tan Sylvia, Cheng L S-C, Diaz Justo, Toscano Edgar, Quinonnes M, Liu C R, Liu C H, Castellani Lawrence W, Hsueh Willa A, Rotter Jerome I, Hodis Howard N
Abstract excerpt
Although clinical coronary heart disease and many cardiovascular risk factors are well known to aggregate within families, the heritability of carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) is less well documented. We report IMT heritability estimates in Mexican American, Salvadoran American, or Guatemalan American (all referred to as Latino) families ascertained through a hypertensive proband. IMT and...
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