Genome-wide association analysis of incident coronary heart disease (CHD) in African Americans: a short report.

Genome-wide association analysis of incident coronary heart disease (CHD) in African Americans: a short report.

African Americans have the highest rate of mortality due to coronary heart disease (CHD). Although multiple loci have been identified influencing CHD risk in European-Americans using a genome-wide association (GWAS) approach, no GWAS of incident CHD has been reported for African Americans. We perfor...

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Main Authors: Maja Barbalic, Alex P Reiner, Chunyuan Wu, James E Hixson, Nora Franceschini, Charles B Eaton, Gerardo Heiss, David Couper, Thomas Mosley, Eric Boerwinkle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-08-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3150445?pdf=render

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