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Replication of putative susceptibility loci from genome-wide association studies associated with coronary atherosclerosis in Chinese Han population.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Xie Fang, Chu Xun, Wu Hong, Sun Weiwei, Shen Min, Yang Lin, Wang Ying, Wang Yi, Shi Jinxiu, Huang Wei
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BACKGROUND: Coronary atherosclerosis, the main cause of cardiovascular disease, is a progressive disease. Recent Genome Wide Association Studies (GWASs) discovered several novel loci associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) or its main complication myocardial infarction (MI). In this study, we investigated the associations between previously reported CAD- and MI-associated variants and coronary...
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