Genome-Wide Association Analysis of Incident Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) in African Americans: A Short Report

African Americans have the highest rate of mortality due to coronary heart disease (CHD). Although multiple loci have been identified influencing CHD risk in European-Americans using a genome-wide association (GWAS) approach, no GWAS of incident CHD has been reported for African Americans. We perfor...

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Main Authors: Barbalic, Maja, Reiner, Alex P., Wu, Chunyuan, Hixson, James E., Franceschini, Nora, Eaton, Charles B., Heiss, Gerardo, Couper, David, Mosley, Thomas, Boerwinkle, Eric
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2011
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3150445/