Novel genetic markers associate with atrial fibrillation risk in Europeans and Japanese

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 63, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1200-1210

  Lubitz, Steven A ^a   Lunetta, Kathryn L ^b   Lin, Honghuang ^b,c   Arking, Dan E ^d   Trompet, Stella ^e   Li, Guo ^f   Krijthe, Bouwe P ^g,h   Chasman, Daniel I ^i,j   Barnard, John ^k   Kleber, Marcus E ^l   Dörr, Marcus ^m,n   Ozaki, Kouichi ^o   Smith, Albert V ^p   Müller Nurasyid, Martina ^q,r,s   Walter, Stefan ^t   Agarwal, Sunil K ^u   Bis, Joshua C ^f   Brody, Jennifer A ^f   Chen, Lin Y ^v   Everett, Brendan M ^i,j   Ford, Ian ^w   Franco, Oscar H ^g,h   Harris, Tamara B ^x   Hofman, Albert ^g,h   Kääb, Stefan ^n,q   Mahida, Saagar ^y   Kathiresan, Sekar ^a   Kubo, Michiaki ^o   Launer, Lenore J ^x   Macfarlane, Peter W ^z   Magnani, Jared W ^b,c   McKnight, Barbara ^aa   McManus, David D ^ab   Peters, Annette ^n,r   Psaty, Bruce M ^f,aa,ac   Rose, Lynda M ^j   Rotter, Jerome I ^ad   Silbernagel, Guenther ^ae   Smith, Jonathan D ^k   Sotoodehnia, Nona ^f   Stott, David J ^w   Taylor, Kent D ^af   Tomaschitz, Andreas ^ag   Tsunoda, Tatsuhiko ^o   Uitterlinden, Andre G ^g,h   Van Wagoner, David R ^k   Völker, Uwe ^n,ah   Völzke, Henry ^n,ah   Murabito, Joanne M ^b,c   Sinner, Moritz F ^q   Gudnason, Vilmundur ^p   Felix, Stephan B ^m,n   März, Winfried ^l,ag,ai   Chung, Mina ^k   Albert, Christine M ^i,j   Stricker, Bruno H ^g,h,aj   Tanaka, Toshihiro ^o,ak   Heckbert, Susan R ^f,aa,ac   Jukema, J Wouter ^e,am   Alonso, Alvaro ^al   Benjamin, Emelia J ^b,c   Ellinor, Patrick T ^a   more..

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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

^g ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^h Netherlands Consortium on Healthy Aging (NCHA)   (Netherlands)

ⁱ HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^k LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY MEDICINE GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

ⁿ DZHK GERMAN CENTRE FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH   (Germany)

^o Institute of Physical and Chemical Research   (Japan)

^p UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^q LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^r INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^s UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^t HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^u JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^w UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^x NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^y LEEDS GENERAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^z UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^ac CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^ad HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^af CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^ag MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF GREIFSWALD   (Germany)

^ai SYNLAB ACADEMY   (Germany)

^aj Inspectorate for Health Care   (Netherlands)

^ak TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^al UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^am ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; atrial flutter; genetic; prognosis; risk

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 4Q; CHROMOSOME 4Q25; ETHNICITY; EUROPE; EUROPEANS; FEMALE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SIMILARITY; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PITX2 GENE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANCESTRY GROUP; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPEAN; GENETIC VARIABILITY; JAPANESE (PEOPLE); MIDDLE AGED; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; GENETIC; PROGNOSIS; RISK;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PITX2;

EID: 84896908605     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.12.015     Document Type: Article

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