Clinical Utility of Multimarker Genetic Risk Scores for Prediction of Incident Coronary Heart Disease
Author(s) -
Carlos Iribarren,
Meng Lü,
Eric Jorgenson,
Manuel E. SotoMartínez,
Carla Lluís-Ganella,
Isaac Subirana,
Eduardo Salas,
Roberto Elosúa
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
circulation cardiovascular genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1942-3268
pISSN - 1942-325X
DOI - 10.1161/circgenetics.116.001522
Subject(s) - hazard ratio , medicine , framingham risk score , confidence interval , cohort , asymptomatic , proportional hazards model , cohort study , demography , cardiology , disease , sociology
We evaluated whether including multilocus genetic risk scores (GRSs) into the Framingham Risk Equation improves the predictive capacity, discrimination, and reclassification of asymptomatic individuals with respect to coronary heart disease (CHD) risk.
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