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Local Ancestry and Clinical Cardiovascular Events Among African Americans From the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study.
Journal of the American Heart Association - 10 Apr 2017
Shendre Aditi, Irvin Marguerite R, Wiener Howard, Zhi Degui, Limdi Nita A, Overton Edgar T, Shrestha Sadeep
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BACKGROUND: Local ancestry in relation to clinical cardiovascular events (CVEs) among African Americans can provide insight into their genetic susceptibility to the disease. METHODS AND RESULTS: We examined local European ancestry (LEA) association with CVEs among 3000 African Americans from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC). We estimated LEA using Local Ancestry Inference in adMixed...
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