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SUBMITTER: Xu H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5872085 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Xu Huichun H Dorn Gerald W GW Shetty Amol A Parihar Ankita A Dave Tushar T Robinson Shawn W SW Gottlieb Stephen S SS Donahue Mark P MP Tomaselli Gordon F GF Kraus William E WE Mitchell Braxton D BD Liggett Stephen B SB
Journal of personalized medicine 20180226 1
Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) is the most common form of non-ischemic chronic heart failure. Despite the higher prevalence of IDC in African Americans, the genetics of IDC have been relatively understudied in this ethnic group. We performed a genome-wide association study to identify susceptibility genes for IDC in African Americans recruited from five sites in the U.S. (662 unrelated cases and 1167 controls). The heritability of IDC was calculated to be 33% (95% confidence interval: 1 ...[more]