Association Between the Coronary Artery Disease Risk Locus on Chromosome 9p21.3 and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Author(s) -
Matthew J. Bown,
Peter S. Braund,
John R. Thompson,
N.J.M. London,
Nilesh J. Samani,
Shu Ye
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
circulation cardiovascular genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1942-325X
pISSN - 1942-3268
DOI - 10.1161/circgenetics.108.789727
Subject(s) - odds ratio , abdominal aortic aneurysm , medicine , confidence interval , coronary artery disease , genotype , locus (genetics) , cardiology , case control study , single nucleotide polymorphism , allele , aneurysm , genetics , surgery , biology , gene
Recent genome-wide studies have shown a significant association of a locus on chromosome 9p21.3 and coronary artery disease. We performed a case-control study to investigate the association between this locus and abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA).
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