Influence of 23 coronary artery disease variants on recurrent myocardial infarction or cardiac death: the GRACE Genetics Study | Zendy

Els Wauters | Zendy; Kathryn Carruthers | Zendy; Ian Buysschaert | Zendy; Donald R. Dunbar | Zendy; Gilian Peuteman | Zendy; Ann Belmans | Zendy; Andrzej Budaj | Zendy; Frans Van de Werf | Zendy; Diether Lambrechts | Zendy; Keith A.A. Fox | Zendy

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Influence of 23 coronary artery disease variants on recurrent myocardial infarction or cardiac death: the GRACE Genetics Study

Author(s) -

Els Wauters,

Kathryn Carruthers,

Ian Buysschaert,

Donald R. Dunbar,

Gilian Peuteman,

Ann Belmans,

Andrzej Budaj,

Frans Van de Werf,

Diether Lambrechts,

Keith A.A. Fox

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

european heart journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 4.336

H-Index - 293

eISSN - 1522-9645

pISSN - 0195-668X

DOI - 10.1093/eurheartj/ehs389

Subject(s) - medicine , myocardial infarction , coronary artery disease , cardiology , genome wide association study , disease , single nucleotide polymorphism , genetics , genotype , gene , biology

A pooled analysis of 14 genome-wide association studies revealed 23 susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease (CAD), thereby providing the most comprehensive genetic blueprint of CAD susceptibility. Here, we evaluated whether these 23 loci also predispose to recurrent myocardial infarction (MI) or cardiac death following an acute coronary syndrome (ACS).

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