Discovery of Genetic Variation on Chromosome 5q22 Associated with Mortality in Heart Failure.

Failure of the human heart to maintain sufficient output of blood for the demands of the body, heart failure, is a common condition with high mortality even with modern therapeutic alternatives. To identify molecular determinants of mortality in patients with new-onset heart failure, we performed a...

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Main Authors: J Gustav Smith, Janine F Felix, Alanna C Morrison, Andreas Kalogeropoulos, Stella Trompet, Jemma B Wilk, Olof Gidlöf, Xinchen Wang, Michael Morley, Michael Mendelson, Roby Joehanes, Symen Ligthart, Xiaoyin Shan, Joshua C Bis, Ying A Wang, Marketa Sjögren, Julius Ngwa, Jeffrey Brandimarto, David J Stott, David Aguilar, Kenneth M Rice, Howard D Sesso, Serkalem Demissie, Brendan M Buckley, Kent D Taylor, Ian Ford, Chen Yao, Chunyu Liu, CHARGE-SCD consortium, EchoGen consortium, QT-IGC consortium, CHARGE-QRS consortium, Nona Sotoodehnia, Pim van der Harst, Bruno H Ch Stricker, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Yongmei Liu, J Michael Gaziano, Albert Hofman, Christine S Moravec, André G Uitterlinden, Manolis Kellis, Joyce B van Meurs, Kenneth B Margulies, Abbas Dehghan, Daniel Levy, Björn Olde, Bruce M Psaty, L Adrienne Cupples, J Wouter Jukema, Luc Djousse, Oscar H Franco, Eric Boerwinkle, Laurie A Boyer, Christopher Newton-Cheh, Javed Butler, Ramachandran S Vasan, Thomas P Cappola, Nicholas L Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-05-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4858216?pdf=render