Shared genetic susceptibility to ischemic stroke and coronary artery disease: a genome-wide analysis of common variants.

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Ischemic stroke (IS) and coronary artery disease (CAD) share several risk factors and each has a substantial heritability. We conducted a genome-wide analysis to evaluate the extent of shared genetic determination of the two diseases.

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Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Stroke

Title: Stroke

Publisher: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

ISSN (Electronic): 1524-4628

ISSN (Print): 0039-2499

Publication date (Electronic): Jan 2014

Volume: 45

Issue: 1

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[1 ] From the Institute for Stroke and Dementia Research, Klinikum der Universität München, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany (M.D., R. Malik); Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy), Munich, Germany (M.D.); Institut für Medizinische Biometrie und Statistik (I.R.K.), and Institut für integrative und experimentelle Genomik (J.E.), Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany; Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Germany (I.R.K.); Department of Neurology and Center for Human Genetic Research (J.R.), and Cardiology Division (C.J.O.D.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (J.R.); Program in Medical and Population Genetics (J.R.), and Program in Medical and Population Genetics (S.K.), Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, MA; Clinical Trial Service Unit and Epidemiological Studies Unit (R.C., J.C.H.), Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics (H.W., M. Farrall), Department of Cardiovascular Medicine (M. Farrall), and Stroke Prevention Research Unit, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neuroscience (P.M.R.), John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom; deCODE Genetics, Reykjavik, Iceland (S.G., G.T., U.T., K.S.); Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore (B.D.M.); Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA (T.L.A.); Center for Translational Neuroscience and Mental Health Research, University of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia (C.L.); Hunter Medical Research Institute, New South Wales, Australia (C.L.); National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and NHLBI's Framingham Heart Study, MA (C.J.O.D., S.S.); University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (M. Fornage); Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Epidemiology (B.M.P.), Department of Medicine (B.M.P.), Department of Health Services (B.M.P.), and Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Department of Medicine (J.C.B.), University

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Publisher Item ID: STROKEAHA.113.002707 Mid ID: NIHMS543063

DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.002707

PMC ID: 4112102

PubMed ID: 24262325

SO-VID: 4a243b30-d047-4695-be2c-60565c180d00

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Keywords: coronary artery disease,genetics,meta-analysis,polymorphism, single nucleotide,stroke

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Keywords: coronary artery disease, genetics, meta-analysis, polymorphism, single nucleotide, stroke

Shared genetic susceptibility to ischemic stroke and coronary artery disease: a genome-wide analysis of common variants.

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