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From Loci to Biology: Functional Genomics of Genome-Wide Association for Coronary Disease.
Circulation research - 19 Feb 2016
Nurnberg Sylvia T, Zhang Hanrui, Hand Nicholas J, Bauer Robert C, Saleheen Danish, Reilly Muredach P, Rader Daniel J
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies have provided a rich collection of ≈ 58 coronary artery disease (CAD) loci that suggest the existence of previously unsuspected new biology relevant to atherosclerosis. However, these studies only identify genomic loci associated with CAD, and many questions remain even after a genomic locus is definitively implicated, including the nature of the causal variant(s) and the causal...
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