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Thirty-five common variants for coronary artery disease: the fruits of much collaborative labour.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Oct 2011
Peden John F, Farrall Martin
Abstract excerpt
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death worldwide. Affected individuals cluster in families in patterns that reflect the sharing of numerous susceptibility genes. Genome-wide and large-scale gene-centric genotyping studies that involve tens of thousands of cases and controls have now mapped common disease variants to 34 distinct loci. Some coronary disease common variants show allelic...
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