Genetics of coronary artery disease: Discovery, biology and clinical translation

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 331-344

  Khera, Amit V ^a   Kathiresan, Sekar ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DRUG DEVELOPMENT; FAMILIAL HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; FAMILY; FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS; GENE EDITING; GENETICS; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MENDELIAN RANDOMIZATION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; REVIEW; ANIMAL; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH;

ANIMALS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; HUMANS; PRECISION MEDICINE; TRANSLATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH;

EID: 85014950063     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg.2016.160     Document Type: Review

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