Replication of putative susceptibility loci from genome-wide association studies associated with coronary atherosclerosis in Chinese Han population.

BACKGROUND: Coronary atherosclerosis, the main cause of cardiovascular disease, is a progressive disease. Recent Genome Wide Association Studies (GWASs) discovered several novel loci associated with coronary artery disease (CAD) or its main complication myocardial infarction (MI). In this study, we...

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Main Authors: Fang Xie, Xun Chu, Hong Wu, Weiwei Sun, Min Shen, Lin Yang, Ying Wang, Yi Wang, Jinxiu Shi, Wei Huang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3116833?pdf=render