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Functional analyses of coronary artery disease associated variation on chromosome 9p21 in vascular smooth muscle cells.
Human molecular genetics - 15 Sept 2012
Motterle Anna, Pu Xiangyuan, Wood Harriet, Xiao Qingzhong, Gor Shivani, Ng Fu Liang, Chan Kenneth, Cross Frank, Shohreh Beski, Poston Robin N, Tucker Arthur T, Caulfield Mark J, Ye Shu
Abstract excerpt
Variation on chromosome 9p21 is associated with risk of coronary artery disease (CAD). This genomic region contains the CDKN2A and CDKN2B genes which encode the cell cycle regulators p16(INK4a), p14(ARF) and p15(INK4b) and the ANRIL gene which encodes a non-coding RNA. Vascular smooth muscle cell (VSMC) proliferation plays an important role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis which causes CAD. We ascertained...
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