Heritability of Carotid Intima-Media Thickness: A Twin Study

OBJECTIVE: To estimate the heritability of carotid intima-media thickness (IMT), a surrogate marker for atherosclerosis, independent of traditional coronary risk factors. METHODS AND RESULTS: We performed a classical twin study of carotid IMT using 98 middle-aged male twin pairs, 58 monozygotic (MZ)...

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Hauptverfasser: Zhao, Jinying, Cheema, Faiz A., Bremner, J. Douglas, Goldberg, Jack, Su, Shaoyong, Snieder, Harold, Maisano, Carisa, Jones, Linda, Javed, Farhan, Murrah, Nancy, Le, Ngoc-Anh, Vaccarino, Viola
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: 2007
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Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2387097/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17825306
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2007.07.030
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