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A myocardial infarction genetic risk score is associated with markers of carotid atherosclerosis.
Journal of internal medicine - 1 Mar 2012
Hamrefors V, Hedblad B, Engström G, Almgren P, Sjögren M, Melander O
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether or not a genetic risk score that was previously shown to be associated with myocardial infarction (MI) and coronary artery disease (CAD) is also associated with markers of carotid atherosclerosis. DESIGN: A total of 4022 middle-aged subjects from the general Swedish population were genotyped and individually assigned a genetic risk score based on 13 single-nucleotide polymorphisms...
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