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Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine (2008) 5, 242
doi:10.1038/ncpcardio1174  

Polymorphism in KIF6 associated with coronary events in two independent cohorts

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A large number of genetic polymorphisms have been linked with cardiovascular disease; however, few of these associations have been validated in independent studies. In a recent investigation, Iakoubova et al. conducted genetic association analyses to determine whether any of 35 polymorphisms previously shown to have an association with cardiovascular disease were associated with myocardial infarction (MI) in the placebo arm of the CARE trial, or with coronary heart disease (CHD) in the placebo arm of the WOSCOPS trial.

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