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Evidence for a heritable component in death resulting from aortic and mitral valve diseases.
Circulation - 9 Nov 2004
Horne Benjamin D, Camp Nicola J, Muhlestein Joseph B, Cannon-Albright Lisa A
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BACKGROUND: Cardiac valvular diseases contribute to >42,000 deaths yearly in the United States, but the role of genetics in these deaths is unknown. This study evaluated the familiality of death resulting from aortic, mitral, and all valvular diseases using a population-based genealogy linked to death records. METHODS AND RESULTS: The Utah Population Database contains >2 million individual records with genealogy...
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