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Genetics of coronary artery disease.
Annual review of genomics and human genetics - 1 Jan 2010
Musunuru Kiran, Kathiresan Sekar
Abstract excerpt
Coronary artery disease and its clinical manifestations, including myocardial infarction, are heritable traits, consistent with a role for inherited DNA sequence variation in conferring risk for disease. Knowledge of the new sequence variations in the genome that confer risk has the potential to illuminate new causal biologic pathways in humans and to thereby further improve diagnosis and treatment. Here, we...
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