Large-Scale Candidate Gene Analysis in Whites and African Americans Identifies IL6R Polymorphism in Relation to Atrial Fibrillation The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Candidate Gene Association Resource (CARe) project

Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 557-564

  Schnabel, Renate B ^a   Kerr, Kathleen F ^d   Lubitz, Steven A ^d   Alkylbekova, Ermeg L ^d   Marcus, Gregory M ^d   Sinner, Moritz F ^d   Magnani, Jared W ^d   Wolf, Philip A ^d   Deo, Rajat ^d   Lloyd Jones, Donald M ^d   Lunetta, Kathryn L ^d   Mehra, Reena ^d   Levy, Daniel ^d   Fox, Ervin R ^d   Arking, Dan E ^d   Mosley, Thomas H ^d   Müller Nurasyid, Martina ^d   Young, Taylor R ^d   Wichmann, H Erich ^d   Seshadri, Sudha ^d   Farlow, Deborah N ^d   Rotter, Jerome I ^d   Soliman, Elsayed Z ^d   Glazer, Nicole L ^d   Wilson, James G ^d   Breteler, Monique M B ^d   Sotoodehnia, Nona ^d   Newton Cheh, Christopher ^d   Kääb, Stefan ^d   Ellinor, Patrick T ^d   Alonso, Alvaro ^d   Benjamin, Emelia J ^b   Heckbert, Susan R ^c   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cohort study; Epidemiology; Race ethnicity; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHROMOSOME 4; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STROKE;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; ALLELES; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; COHORT STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE (U.S.); POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-6; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 82955173730     PISSN: 1942325X     EISSN: 19423268     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCGENETICS.110.959197     Document Type: Article

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