Nature Communications (Jul 2016)

Integrative functional genomics identifies regulatory mechanisms at coronary artery disease loci

  • Clint L. Miller,
  • Milos Pjanic,
  • Ting Wang,
  • Trieu Nguyen,
  • Ariella Cohain,
  • Jonathan D. Lee,
  • Ljubica Perisic,
  • Ulf Hedin,
  • Ramendra K. Kundu,
  • Deshna Majmudar,
  • Juyong B. Kim,
  • Oliver Wang,
  • Christer Betsholtz,
  • Arno Ruusalepp,
  • Oscar Franzén,
  • Themistocles L. Assimes,
  • Stephen B. Montgomery,
  • Eric E. Schadt,
  • Johan L.M. Björkegren,
  • Thomas Quertermous

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12092
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide with multiple environmental and genetic risk factors. Here the authors integrate genomic, epigenomic and transcriptomic mapping to elucidate causal variation and mechanisms of known genetic associations.