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Framingham Heart Study 100K project: genome-wide associations for cardiovascular disease outcomes.
BMC medical genetics - 19 Sept 2007
Larson Martin G, Atwood Larry D, Benjamin Emelia J, Cupples L Adrienne, D'Agostino Ralph B, Fox Caroline S, Govindaraju Diddahally R, Guo Chao-Yu, Heard-Costa Nancy L, Hwang Shih-Jen, Murabito Joanne M, Newton-Cheh Christopher, O'Donnell Christopher J, Seshadri Sudha, Vasan Ramachandran S, Wang Thomas J, Wolf Philip A, Levy Daniel
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BACKGROUND: Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and its most common manifestations--including coronary heart disease (CHD), stroke, heart failure (HF), and atrial fibrillation (AF)--are major causes of morbidity and mortality. In many industrialized countries, cardiovascular disease (CVD) claims more lives each year than any other disease. Heart disease and stroke are the first and third leading causes of death in the...
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