Genome-Wide Association Study for Incident Myocardial Infarction and Coronary Heart Disease in Prospective Cohort Studies: The CHARGE Consortium.

BACKGROUND:Data are limited on genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for incident coronary heart disease (CHD). Moreover, it is not known whether genetic variants identified to date also associate with risk of CHD in a prospective setting. METHODS:We performed a two-stage GWAS analysis of incident...

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Main Authors: Abbas Dehghan, Joshua C Bis, Charles C White, Albert Vernon Smith, Alanna C Morrison, L Adrienne Cupples, Stella Trompet, Daniel I Chasman, Thomas Lumley, Uwe Völker, Brendan M Buckley, Jingzhong Ding, Majken K Jensen, Aaron R Folsom, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Cynthia J Girman, Ian Ford, Marcus Dörr, Veikko Salomaa, André G Uitterlinden, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Ramachandran S Vasan, Nora Franceschini, Cara L Carty, Jarmo Virtamo, Serkalem Demissie, Philippe Amouyel, Dominique Arveiler, Susan R Heckbert, Jean Ferrières, Pierre Ducimetière, Nicholas L Smith, Ying A Wang, David S Siscovick, Kenneth M Rice, Per-Gunnar Wiklund, Kent D Taylor, Alun Evans, Frank Kee, Jerome I Rotter, Juha Karvanen, Kari Kuulasmaa, Gerardo Heiss, Peter Kraft, Lenore J Launer, Albert Hofman, Marcello R P Markus, Lynda M Rose, Kaisa Silander, Peter Wagner, Emelia J Benjamin, Kurt Lohman, David J Stott, Fernando Rivadeneira, Tamara B Harris, Daniel Levy, Yongmei Liu, Eric B Rimm, J Wouter Jukema, Henry Völzke, Paul M Ridker, Stefan Blankenberg, Oscar H Franco, Vilmundur Gudnason, Bruce M Psaty, Eric Boerwinkle, Christopher J O'Donnell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4780701?pdf=render