What Can We Learn From Common Genetic Variants With Weak Effects on Cardiovascular Disease Risk?

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¹ Cardiovascular Research Center & Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Electronic address: cnewtoncheh@mgh.harvard.edu.

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Christopher Newton-Cheh. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2019.

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. 2019 Jun 18;73(23):2943-2945.

doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2019.05.002.

¹ Cardiovascular Research Center & Center for Genomic Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Electronic address: cnewtoncheh@mgh.harvard.edu.

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Keywords: UK Biobank; cardiovascular diseases; coronary artery disease; genetic risk score; heart failure; migraine.

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