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Polygenic hypercholesterolemia: examples of GWAS results and their replication in the Czech-Slavonic population.
Physiological research - 5 Apr 2017
Hubacek J A, Adamkova V, Lanska V, Dlouha D
Abstract excerpt
Since 2007, the year of their first widespread use, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have become the "gold standard" for the detection of causal genes and polymorphisms in all fields of human medicine. Cardiovascular disease (CVD), one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality, is no exception. The first GWAS focused on hypercholesterolemia and dyslipidemia as the major CVD determinants. GWAS confirm...
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