African American race but not genome-wide ancestry is negatively associated with atrial fibrillation among postmenopausal women in the Women's Health Initiative

American Heart Journal

Volumn 166, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Perez, Marco V ^a   Hoffmann, Thomas J ^b   Tang, Hua ^c   Thornton, Timothy ^d   Stefanick, Marcia L ^a   Larson, Joseph C ^e   Kooperberg, Charles ^e   Reiner, Alex P ^d   Caan, Bette ^f   Iribarren, Carlos ^f   Risch, Neil ^b,f  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^e Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^f DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84883779648     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.05.024     Document Type: Article

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