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Associations with myocardial infarction of six polymorphisms selected from a three-stage genome-wide association study.
American heart journal - 1 Nov 2007
Horne Benjamin D, Carlquist John F, Muhlestein Joseph B, Nicholas Zachary P, Anderson Jeffrey L
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Coronary heart disease, including its clinical manifestation, myocardial infarction (MI), is a common, complex disease with a substantive genetic component. State-of-the-art genetic epidemiology evaluates thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in association with disease cases and controls. In an independent but demographically similar population, this study tested 6 SNPs that were...
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