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Chromosome 9p21.3 coronary heart disease locus genotype and prospective risk of CHD in healthy middle-aged men.
Clinical chemistry - 1 Mar 2008
Talmud Philippa J, Cooper Jackie A, Palmen Jutta, Lovering Ruth, Drenos Fotios, Hingorani Aroon D, Humphries Steve E
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We investigated whether chromosome 9p21.3 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), identified in coronary heart disease (CHD) genome-wide association scans, added significantly to the predictive utility for CHD of conventional risk factors (CRF) in the Framingham risk score (FRS) algorithm. METHODS: In the Northwick Park Heart Study II of 2742 men (270 CHD events occurring during a 15-year prospective...
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