Genome-wide admixture and association study of subclinical atherosclerosis in the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS).

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a major comorbidity among HIV-infected individuals. Common carotid artery intima-media thickness (cCIMT) is a valid and reliable subclinical measure of atherosclerosis and is known to predict CVD. We performed genome-wide association (GWA) and admixture analysis among...

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Main Authors: Aditi Shendre, Howard W Wiener, Marguerite R Irvin, Bradley E Aouizerat, Edgar T Overton, Jason Lazar, Chenglong Liu, Howard N Hodis, Nita A Limdi, Kathleen M Weber, Stephen J Gange, Degui Zhi, Michelle A Floris-Moore, Ighovwerha Ofotokun, Qibin Qi, David B Hanna, Robert C Kaplan, Sadeep Shrestha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5714351?pdf=render