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Progress in unraveling the genetics of coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction.
Current atherosclerosis reports - 1 Sept 2007
Anderson Jeffrey L, Carlquist John F, Horne Benjamin D, Hopkins Paul N
Abstract excerpt
Atherosclerosis is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Coronary artery disease (CAD) and its clinical manifestation, myocardial infarction (MI), are equally determined by interacting environmental and (largely unknown) multigenic factors. Genome-wide and candidate gene searches for single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) associations with CAD/MI (ie, coronary heart disease) often have resulted in...
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