Genetically determined height and coronary artery disease

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Kathiresan, Sekar, Kee, Frank, König, Inke R., Nelson, Christopher P., Hamby, Stephen E., Saleheen, Danish, Hopewell, Jenna C., Zeng, Lingyao, Assimes, Themistocles L., Kanoni, Stavroula, Willenborg, Christina, Burgess, Stephen, Amouyel, Phillipe, Anand, Sonia, Blankenberg, Stefan, Boehm, Bernhard Otto, Clarke, Robert J., Collins, Rory, Dedoussis, George, Farrall, Martin, Franks, Paul W., Groop, Leif, Hall, Alistair S., Hamsten, Anders, Hengstenberg, Christian, Kees Hovingh, G., Ingelsson, Erik, Kooner, Jaspal, Lehtimäki, Terho, März, Winifred, McPherson, Ruth, Wareham, Nicholas, Willer, Cristen J., Metspalu, Andres, Nieminen, Markku S., O'Donnell, Christopher J., Palmer, Colin N. A., Peters, Annette, Perola, Markus, Reilly, Muredach P., Ripatti, Samuli, Roberts, Robert, Salomaa, Veikko, Shah, Svati H., Schreiber, Stefan, Siegbahn, Agneta, Thorsteinsdottir, Unnur, Veronesi, Giovani, Zalloua, Pierre A., Erdmann, Jeanette, Deloukas, Panos, Watkins, Hugh, Schunkert, Heribert, Danesh, John, Thompson, John R., Samani, Nilesh J.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine (LKCMedicine)
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2015
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Science::Medicine
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/107552; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38521
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

BACKGROUND: The nature and underlying mechanisms of an inverse association between adult height and the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) are unclear. METHODS: We used a genetic approach to investigate the association between height and CAD, using 180 height-associated genetic variant...