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Association study of genetic variants at newly identified lipid gene TRIB1 with coronary heart disease in Chinese Han population.
Lipids in health and disease - 19 May 2015
Wang Long, Jing Jinjin, Fu Qianxi, Tang Xiaojun, Su Li, Wu Shishi, Li Ge, Zhou Li
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified the variants near TRIB1 gene affecting blood lipid levels. However, the association between the reported variants and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) was not confirmed. METHODS: We conducted two independent case-control studies. The first study consisted of 300 CHD patients and 300 controls and the second study had 1,332 CHD patients...
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