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Admixture mapping of coronary artery calcification in African Americans from the NHLBI family heart study.
BMC genetics - 23 Apr 2015
Gomez Felicia, Wang Lihua, Abel Haley, Zhang Qunyuan, Province Michael A, Borecki Ingrid B
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BACKGROUND: Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is an imaging biomarker of coronary atherosclerosis. In European Americans, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified several regions associated with coronary artery disease. However, few large studies have been conducted in African Americans. The largest meta-analysis of CAC in African Americans failed to identify genome-wide significant variants...
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