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HapMap and mapping genes for cardiovascular disease.
Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics - 1 Oct 2008
Musunuru Kiran, Kathiresan Sekar
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A key goal of biomedical science is to understand why individuals differ in their susceptibility to disease. Family history is among the established risk factors for most forms of cardiovascular disease, in part because inherited DNA sequence variants play a causal role in disease susceptibility. Consequently, the search for these variants has intensified over the past decade. One class of DNA sequence variants...
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