Identification of a sudden cardiac death susceptibility locus at 2q24.2 through genome-wide association in European ancestry individuals.

Identification of a sudden cardiac death susceptibility locus at 2q24.2 through genome-wide association in European ancestry individuals.

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) continues to be one of the leading causes of mortality worldwide, with an annual incidence estimated at 250,000-300,000 in the United States and with the vast majority occurring in the setting of coronary disease. We performed a genome-wide association meta-analysis in 1,2...

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Main Authors: Dan E Arking, M Juhani Junttila, Philippe Goyette, Adriana Huertas-Vazquez, Mark Eijgelsheim, Marieke T Blom, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Kyndaron Reinier, Carmen Teodorescu, Audrey Uy-Evanado, Naima Carter-Monroe, Kari S Kaikkonen, Marja-Leena Kortelainen, Gabrielle Boucher, Caroline Lagacé, Anna Moes, XiaoQing Zhao, Frank Kolodgie, Fernando Rivadeneira, Albert Hofman, Jacqueline C M Witteman, André G Uitterlinden, Roos F Marsman, Raha Pazoki, Abdennasser Bardai, Rudolph W Koster, Abbas Dehghan, Shih-Jen Hwang, Pallav Bhatnagar, Wendy Post, Gina Hilton, Ronald J Prineas, Man Li, Anna Köttgen, Georg Ehret, Eric Boerwinkle, Josef Coresh, W H Linda Kao, Bruce M Psaty, Gordon F Tomaselli, Nona Sotoodehnia, David S Siscovick, Greg L Burke, Eduardo Marbán, Peter M Spooner, L Adrienne Cupples, Jonathan Jui, Karen Gunson, Y Antero Kesäniemi, Arthur A M Wilde, Jean-Claude Tardif, Christopher J O'Donnell, Connie R Bezzina, Renu Virmani, Bruno H C H Stricker, Hanno L Tan, Christine M Albert, Aravinda Chakravarti, John D Rioux, Heikki V Huikuri, Sumeet S Chugh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-06-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3128111?pdf=render

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