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GWAS-identified loci for coronary heart disease are associated with intima-media thickness and plaque presence at the carotid artery bulb.

den Hoed, Marcel ; Strawbridge, Rona J ; Almgren, Peter LU ; Gustafsson, Stefan ; Axelsson, Tomas ; Engström, Gunnar LU ; de Faire, Ulf ; Hedblad, Bo LU ; Humphries, Steve E and Lindgren, Cecilia M , et al. (2015) In Atherosclerosis 239(2). p.304-310
Abstract
Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have so far identified 45 loci that are robustly associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) in data from adult men and women of European descent.
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  abstract     = {{Large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have so far identified 45 loci that are robustly associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) in data from adult men and women of European descent.}},
  author       = {{den Hoed, Marcel and Strawbridge, Rona J and Almgren, Peter and Gustafsson, Stefan and Axelsson, Tomas and Engström, Gunnar and de Faire, Ulf and Hedblad, Bo and Humphries, Steve E and Lindgren, Cecilia M and Morris, Andrew P and Östling, Gerd and Syvänen, Ann-Christine and Tremoli, Elena and Hamsten, Anders and Ingelsson, Erik and Melander, Olle and Lind, Lars}},
  issn         = {{1879-1484}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{2}},
  pages        = {{304--310}},
  publisher    = {{Elsevier}},
  series       = {{Atherosclerosis}},
  title        = {{GWAS-identified loci for coronary heart disease are associated with intima-media thickness and plaque presence at the carotid artery bulb.}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2015.01.032}},
  doi          = {{10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2015.01.032}},
  volume       = {{239}},
  year         = {{2015}},
}