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Strategies beyond genome-wide association studies for atherosclerosis.
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 1 Feb 2012
Maouche Seraya, Schunkert Heribert
Abstract excerpt
Atherosclerotic diseases, including coronary artery disease (CAD) and myocardial infarction (MI), are the leading causes of death in the world. The genetic basis of CAD and MI, which are caused by multiple interacting endogenous and exogenous factors, has gained considerable interest in the last years as genome-wide association studies (GWASs) have identified many new susceptibility loci for CAD and MI, and the...
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