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Potential Signals of Natural Selection in the Top Risk Loci for Coronary Artery Disease: 9p21 and 10q11.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Zanetti Daniela, Carreras-Torres Robert, Esteban Esther, Via Marc, Moral Pedro
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BACKGROUND: Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a complex disease and the leading cause of death in the world. Populations of different ancestry do not always share the same risk markers. Natural selective processes may be the cause of some of the population differences detected for specific risk mutations. OBJECTIVE: In this study, 384 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) located in four genomic regions...
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