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Identification of Mep1a as a susceptibility gene for atherosclerosis in mice.
Genetics - 10 Dec 2021
Grainger Andrew T, Pilar Nathanael, Li Jun, Chen Mei-Hua, Abramson Ashley M, Becker-Pauly Christoph, Shi Weibin
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Atherosclerosis is the underlying cause of heart attack, ischemic stroke and peripheral arterial disease, and genetic factors involved remain mostly unidentified. We previously identified a significant locus on mouse chromosome 17 for atherosclerosis, Ath49, in an intercross between BALB/c and SM strains. Ath49 partially overlaps in the confidence interval with Ath22 mapped in an AKR × DBA/2 intercross....
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