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Analysis of common and coding variants with cardiovascular disease in the Diabetes Heart Study.
Cardiovascular diabetology - 12 Apr 2014
Adams Jeremy N, Raffield Laura M, Freedman Barry I, Langefeld Carl D, Ng Maggie C Y, Carr J Jeffrey, Cox Amanda J, Bowden Donald W
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BACKGROUND: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a major cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor. Identification of genetic risk factors for CVD is important to understand disease risk. Two recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) meta-analyses in the Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE) consortium detected CVD-associated loci. METHODS: Variants identified in CHARGE were tested...
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