Posts Tagged ‘coronary artery disease’
FIRST LOOK: Genetic Risk, Adherence to a Healthy Lifestyle, and Coronary Disease
Both genetic and lifestyle factors are key drivers of coronary artery disease, a complex disorder that is the leading cause of death worldwide. Long recognized to be heritable, genomewide association analyses have identified more than 50 independent variants robustly associated with risk of coronary disease. These risk alleles, when aggregated into a polygenic risk score,…
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