Coronary Artery Calcification and Its Relationship to Validated Genetic Variants for Diabetes Mellitus Assessed in the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Cohort
Author(s) -
Sonali Pechlivanis,
André Scherag,
Thomas W. Mühleisen,
Stefan Möhlenkamp,
Bernhard Horsthemke,
Tanja Boes,
Martina BröckerPreuß,
Klaus Mann,
Raimund Erbel,
KarlHeinz Jöckel,
Markus M. Nöthen,
Susanne Moebus
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
arteriosclerosis thrombosis and vascular biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.007
H-Index - 270
eISSN - 1524-4636
pISSN - 1079-5642
DOI - 10.1161/atvbaha.110.208496
Subject(s) - single nucleotide polymorphism , medicine , diabetes mellitus , odds ratio , genome wide association study , cohort , population , oncology , genetics , endocrinology , biology , genotype , gene , environmental health
To examine the association between genomewide association study-based diabetes mellitus-related single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and coronary artery calcification (CAC), a valid risk factor for coronary heart disease, in a large, unselected, population-based cohort.
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