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Birth Cohort, Age, and Sex Strongly Modulate Effects of Lipid Risk Alleles Identified in Genome-Wide Association Studies.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2015
Kulminski Alexander M, Culminskaya Irina, Arbeev Konstantin G, Arbeeva Liubov, Ukraintseva Svetlana V, Stallard Eric, Wu Deqing, Yashin Anatoliy I
Abstract excerpt
Insights into genetic origin of diseases and related traits could substantially impact strategies for improving human health. The results of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are often positioned as discoveries of unconditional risk alleles of complex health traits. We re-analyzed the associations of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with total cholesterol (TC) in a large-scale GWAS...
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