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SUBMITTER: Dehghan A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2579294 | biostudies-literature | 2008
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dehghan Abbas A van Hoek Mandy M Sijbrands Eric J G EJ Oostra Ben A BA Hofman Albert A van Duijn Cornelia M CM Witteman Jacqueline C M JC
BMC medicine 20081016
<h4>Background</h4>Recent genome wide association (GWA) studies identified two Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNP) (rs10757278 and rs10757274) in the region of the CDK2NA and CDK2NB genes to be consistently associated with the risks of coronary heart disease (CHD) and myocardial infarction (MI). We examined the SNPs in relation to the risk of CHD and MI in a large population based study of elderly population.<h4>Methods</h4>The Rotterdam Study is a population-based, prospective cohort study am ...[more]