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Genetic epidemiology of subclinical cardiovascular disease in the diabetes heart study.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Sept 2008
Bowden D W, Lehtinen A B, Ziegler J T, Rudock M E, Xu J, Wagenknecht L E, Herrington D M, Rich S S, Freedman B I, Carr J J, Langefeld C D
Abstract excerpt
A genome-wide linkage scan of 357 European American (EA) and 72 African American (AA) pedigrees multiplex for type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) was performed with multipoint nonparametric QTL linkage analysis. Four subclinical measures of cardiovascular disease (CVD): coronary artery (CCP), carotid artery (CarCP), and abdominal aortic calcified plaque (AACP) and carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT) were...
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