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Genetic determinants of cardiovascular disease risk in familial hypercholesterolemia.
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 1 Jul 2005
Jansen Angelique C M, van Aalst-Cohen Emily S, Tanck Michael W T, Cheng Suzanne, Fontecha Marcel R, Li Jia, Defesche Joep C, Kastelein John J P
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the contribution of polymorphisms in multiple candidate genes to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in a large cohort of patients with heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH). METHODS AND RESULTS: We genotyped 1940 FH patients for 65 polymorphisms in 36 candidate genes. During 91.451 person-years, 643 (33.1%) patients had at least 1 cardiovascular event. Multifactorial Cox...
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