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Genome-wide joint SNP and CNV analysis of aortic root diameter in African Americans: the HyperGEN study.
BMC medical genomics - 11 Jan 2011
Wineinger Nathan E, Patki Amit, Meyers Kristin J, Broeckel Ulrich, Gu Charles C, Rao D C, Devereux Richard B, Arnett Donna K, Tiwari Hemant K
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BACKGROUND: Aortic root diameter is a clinically relevant trait due to its known relationship with the pathogenesis of aortic regurgitation and risk for aortic dissection. African Americans are an understudied population despite a particularly high burden of cardiovascular diseases. We report a genome-wide association study on aortic root diameter among African Americans enrolled in the HyperGEN study. We invoked...
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