Atherosclerosis: from genetic polymorphisms to system genetics.

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It is generally considered that the genetics of atherosclerosis and its complications involves a large number of genes with common alleles having weak effects on disease risk but possibly interacting with each other and with non-genetic factors. In such a complex system, absence of marginal effects (effects of polymorphisms considered one at a time) is insufficient to exclude the implication of a polymorphism on...

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