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Genome-Wide Polygenic Score, Clinical Risk Factors, and Long-Term Trajectories of Coronary Artery Disease.
Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular biology - 1 Nov 2020
Hindy George, Aragam Krishna G, Ng Kenney, Chaffin Mark, Lotta Luca A, Baras Aris, Drake Isabel, Orho-Melander Marju, Melander Olle, Kathiresan Sekar, Khera Amit V
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OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship of a genome-wide polygenic score for coronary artery disease (GPSCAD) with lifetime trajectories of CAD risk, directly compare its predictive capacity to traditional risk factors, and assess its interplay with the Pooled Cohort Equations (PCE) clinical risk estimator. Approach and Results: We studied GPSCAD in 28 556 middle-aged participants of the Malmö Diet and Cancer...
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