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Significant Association Between CAV1 Variant rs3807989 on 7p31 and Atrial Fibrillation in a Chinese Han Population.
Journal of the American Heart Association - 7 May 2015
Chen Shanshan, Wang Chuchu, Wang Xiaojing, Xu Chengqi, Wu Manman, Wang Pengxia, Tu Xin, Wang Qing K
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in European ancestry populations revealed several genomic loci for atrial fibrillation (AF). We previously replicated the 4q25 locus (PITX2) and 16q22 locus (ZFHX3) in the Chinese population, but not the KCNN3 locus on 1q21. With single-nucleotide polymorphism rs3807989 in CAV1 encoding caveolin-1, however, controversial results were reported in 2 Chinese...
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