Genetically Determined Height and Coronary Artery Disease

BACKGROUND: The nature and underlying mechanisms of an inverse association between adult height and the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) are unclear. METHODS: We used a genetic approach to investigate the association between height and CAD, using 180 height-associated genetic variants. We teste...

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Published in:N Engl J Med
Main Authors: Nelson, C.P., Hamby, S.E., Saleheen, D., Hopewell, J.C., Zeng, L., Assimes, T.L., Kanoni, S., Willenborg, C., Burgess, S., Amouyel, P., Anand, S., Blankenberg, S., Boehm, B.O., Clarke, R.J., Collins, R., Dedoussis, G., Farrall, M., Franks, P.W., Groop, L., Hall, A.S., Hamsten, A., Hengstenberg, C., Hovingh, G. Kees, Ingelsson, E., Kathiresan, S., Kee, F., König, I.R., Kooner, J., Lehtimäki, T., März, W., McPherson, R., Metspalu, A., Nieminen, M.S., O’Donnell, C.J., Palmer, C.N.A., Peters, A., Perola, M., Reilly, M.P., Ripatti, S., Roberts, R., Salomaa, V., Shah, S.H., Schreiber, S., Siegbahn, A., Thorsteinsdottir, U., Veronesi, G., Wareham, N., Willer, C.J., Zalloua, P.A., Erdmann, J., Deloukas, P., Watkins, H., Schunkert, H., Danesh, J., Thompson, J.R., Samani, N.J.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4648271/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25853659
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1404881
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