Rare variants and cardiovascular disease.

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Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity in the Western world. Large genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, stroke and dilated cardiomyopathy have identified a number of common genetic variants with modest effects on disease risk. Similarly, studies of important modifiable risk factors of CVD have identified a large number of...

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