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Genetically determined intelligence and coronary artery disease risk.
Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society - 1 Feb 2021
Li Ling, Pang Shichao, Zeng Lingyao, Güldener Ulrich, Schunkert Heribert
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BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies have shown inverse association between intelligence and coronary artery disease (CAD) risk, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. METHODS: Based on 242 SNPs independently associated with intelligence, we calculated the genetic intelligence score (gIQ) for participants from 10 CAD case-control studies (n = 34,083) and UK Biobank (n = 427,306). From UK Biobank, we...
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