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Can genetic pleiotropy replicate common clinical constellations of cardiovascular disease and risk?
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Gottesman Omri, Drill Esther, Lotay Vaneet, Bottinger Erwin, Peter Inga
Abstract excerpt
The relationship between obesity, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, kidney disease and cardiovascular disease (CVD) is established when looked at from a clinical, epidemiological or pathophysiological perspective. Yet, when viewed from a genetic perspective, there is comparatively little data synthesis that these conditions have an underlying relationship. We sought to investigate the overlap of genetic...
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