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SUBMITTER: Wineinger NE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3659298 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wineinger Nathan E NE Harper Andrew A Libiger Ondrej O Srinivasan Sathanur R SR Chen Wei W Berenson Gerald S GS Schork Nicholas J NJ
Frontiers in genetics 20130521
In clinical medicine, lipids are commonly measured biomarkers used to assess an individual's risk for cardiovascular disease, heart attack, and stroke. Accurately predicting longitudinal lipid levels based on genomic information can inform therapeutic practices and decrease cardiovascular risk by identifying high-risk patients prior to onset. Using genotyped and imputed genetic data from 523 unrelated Caucasian Americans from the Bogalusa Heart Study, surveyed on 4,026 occasions from 4 to 48 yea ...[more]