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A novel major histocompatibility complex locus confers the risk of premature coronary artery disease in a Chinese Han population.
Molecular biology reports - 1 May 2013
Xie Fangyi, Chen Zhong, Ding Zhen, Ma Genshan
Abstract excerpt
Several novel loci have been proved to be associated with coronary artery disease and/or myocardial infarction risk by genome-wide association studies, however, the available coronary artery disease risk variants explain only a small proportion of the predicted genetic heritability of the disease. Recently, a novel coronary artery disease locus on chromosome 6p21.3 in the major histocompatibility complex was...
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