Scientific Contributions of Population-Based Studies to Cardiovascular Epidemiology in the GWAS Era

Scientific Contributions of Population-Based Studies to Cardiovascular Epidemiology in the GWAS Era

Longitudinal, well phenotyped, population-based cohort studies offer unique research opportunities in the context of genome-wide association studies (GWAS), including GWAS for new-onset (incident) cardiovascular disease (CVD) events, the assessment of gene x lifestyle interactions, and evaluating th...

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Main Authors: Wolfgang Lieb, Ramachandran S. Vasan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
Subjects:
GWAS (genome-wide association study)
population
genetic variation
genetic predisposition to disease
risk prediction
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcvm.2018.00057/full

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