Multi-ethnic analysis of lipid-associated loci: the NHLBI CARe project.

BACKGROUND:Whereas it is well established that plasma lipid levels have substantial heritability within populations, it remains unclear how many of the genetic determinants reported in previous studies (largely performed in European American cohorts) are relevant in different ethnicities. METHODOLOG...

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Main Authors: Kiran Musunuru, Simon P R Romaine, Guillaume Lettre, James G Wilson, Kelly A Volcik, Michael Y Tsai, Herman A Taylor, Pamela J Schreiner, Jerome I Rotter, Stephen S Rich, Susan Redline, Bruce M Psaty, George J Papanicolaou, Jose M Ordovas, Kiang Liu, Ronald M Krauss, Nicole L Glazer, Stacey B Gabriel, Myriam Fornage, L Adrienne Cupples, Sarah G Buxbaum, Eric Boerwinkle, Christie M Ballantyne, Sekar Kathiresan, Daniel J Rader
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3357427?pdf=render