Effect size does matter : The long road to mechanistic insight from genome-wide association

Circulation

Volumn 132, Issue 21, 2015, Pages 1943-1945

  MacRae, Calum A ^a,b   Pollak, Martin R ^b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiovascular diseases; Editorials; genetic association studies; genetic techniques; genomics

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; CYCLIN DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR 2A; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MUSCLE PROTEIN;

ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BINDING SITE; EDITORIAL; EFFECT SIZE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION BIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOME 9; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; GENETICS; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 9; CORONARY DISEASE; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITOR P16; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

EID: 84948082408     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.019306     Document Type: Editorial

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