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Multiple associated variants increase the heritability explained for plasma lipids and coronary artery disease.
Circulation. Cardiovascular genetics - 1 Oct 2014
Tada Hayato, Won Hong-Hee, Melander Olle, Yang Jian, Peloso Gina M, Kathiresan Sekar
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BACKGROUND: Plasma lipid levels as well as coronary artery disease (CAD) have been shown to be highly heritable with estimates ranging from 40% to 60%. However, top variants detected by large-scale genome-wide association studies explain only a fraction of the total variance in plasma lipid phenotypes and CAD. METHODS AND RESULTS: We performed a conditional and joint association analysis using summary-level...
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