Communications Medicine (Aug 2022)

Broad clinical manifestations of polygenic risk for coronary artery disease in the Women’s Health Initiative

  • Shoa L. Clarke,
  • Matthew Parham,
  • Joanna Lankester,
  • Aladdin H. Shadyab,
  • Simin Liu,
  • Charles Kooperberg,
  • JoAnn E. Manson,
  • Catherine Tcheandjieu,
  • Themistocles L. Assimes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43856-022-00171-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Clarke, Parham et al. examine associations between polygenic risk for coronary artery disease (CAD) with traits and outcomes in the Women’s Health Initiative. They find that polygenic risk for CAD is associated with a broad spectrum of phenotypes, including decreased risk for some cancers.