Genetic differences between the determinants of lipid profile phenotypes in African and European Americans: the Jackson Heart Study.
Genome-wide association analysis in populations of European descent has recently found more than a hundred genetic variants affecting risk for common disease. An open question, however, is how relevant the variants discovered in Europeans are to other populations. To address this problem for cardiov...
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| Main Authors: | Rahul C Deo, David Reich, Arti Tandon, Ermeg Akylbekova, Nick Patterson, Alicja Waliszewska, Sekar Kathiresan, Daniel Sarpong, Herman A Taylor, James G Wilson |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2009-01-01
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| Series: | PLoS Genetics |
| Online Access: | https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1000342&type=printable |
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