Novel associations for coronary artery disease derived from genome wide association studies are not associated with increased carotid intima-media thickness, suggesting they do not act via early atherosclerosis or vessel remodeling

Atherosclerosis

Volumn 219, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 684-689

  Conde, Lucia ^a   Bevan, Steve ^b   Sitzer, Matthias ^c   Klopp, Norman ^d   Illig, Thomas ^d   Thiery, Joachim ^e   Seissler, Joachim ^f   Baumert, Jens ^d   Raitakari, Olli ^g   Kähönen, Mika ^h   Lyytikäinen, Leo Pekka ^h   Laaksonen, Reijo ^h   Viikari, Jorma ⁱ   Lehtimäki, Terho ^h   Koernig, Wolfgang ^j   Halperin, Eran ^k,l   Markus, Hugh S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^h TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^k TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^l INTERNATIONAL COMPUTER SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Coronary artery disease; Genetics; Genome wide association; Intima media thickness; Myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL WALL THICKNESS; ARTERY INTIMA; ARTERY MEDIA; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EUROPE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGED; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY, COMMON; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TUNICA INTIMA; TUNICA MEDIA;

EID: 82955197397     PISSN: 00219150     EISSN: 18791484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2011.08.031     Document Type: Article

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