Genome-Wide Association Study of Peripheral Arterial Disease in a Japanese Population.

Characteristics of peripheral arterial disease (PAD) are the occlusion or stenosis of multiple vessel sites caused mainly by atherosclerosis and chronic lower limb ischemia. To identify PAD susceptible loci, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) with 785 cases and 3,383 controls in a J...

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Main Authors: Mitsuru Matsukura, Kouichi Ozaki, Atsushi Takahashi, Yoshihiro Onouchi, Takashi Morizono, Hiroyoshi Komai, Hiroshi Shigematsu, Toshifumi Kudo, Yoshinori Inoue, Hideo Kimura, Akihiro Hosaka, Kunihiro Shigematsu, Teturo Miyata, Toshiaki Watanabe, Tatsuhiko Tsunoda, Michiaki Kubo, Toshihiro Tanaka
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4619060?pdf=render