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Polygenic Risk Score for Coronary Heart Disease Modifies the Elevated Risk by Cigarette Smoking for Disease Incidence

BACKGROUND: Coronary heart disease (CHD) is a multifactorial disease with both genetic and environmental components. Smoking is the most important modifiable risk factor for CHD. Our aim was to test whether the increased CHD incidence by smoking is modified by genetic predisposition to CHD. METHODS...

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Autores principales: Hindy, George, Wiberg, Frans, Almgren, Peter, Melander, Olle, Orho-Melander, Marju
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6319562/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29874179
http://dx.doi.org/10.1161/CIRCGEN.117.001856