Genomics of cardiovascular disease

CJ O'Donnell, EG Nabel - New England journal of medicine, 2011 - Mass Medical Soc
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Abdominal aortic aneurysm: novel mechanisms and therapies

FM Davis, DL Rateri, A Daugherty - Current opinion in cardiology, 2015 - journals.lww.com
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Cardiology Abdominal aortic aneurysm: novel mechanisms and therapies : Current Opinion …

Association between telomere length and risk of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases: a Mendelian randomization study

PC Haycock, S Burgess, A Nounu, J Zheng… - JAMA …, 2017 - jamanetwork.com
Importance The causal direction and magnitude of the association between telomere length
and incidence of cancer and non-neoplastic diseases is uncertain owing to the susceptibility …

Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies for abdominal aortic aneurysm identifies four new disease-specific risk loci

GT Jones, G Tromp, H Kuivaniemi… - Circulation …, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Rationale: Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a complex disease with both genetic and
environmental risk factors. Together, 6 previously identified risk loci only explain a small …

Genetics of thoracic aortic aneurysm: at the crossroad of transforming growth factor-β signaling and vascular smooth muscle cell contractility

E Gillis, L Van Laer, BL Loeys - Circulation research, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Aortic aneurysm, including both abdominal aortic aneurysm and thoracic aortic aneurysm, is
the cause of death of 1% to 2% of the Western population. This review focuses only on …

Genome-wide association study identifies a sequence variant within the DAB2IP gene conferring susceptibility to abdominal aortic aneurysm

S Gretarsdottir, AF Baas, G Thorleifsson, H Holm… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
We performed a genome-wide association study on 1,292 individuals with abdominal aortic
aneurysms (AAAs) and 30,503 controls from Iceland and The Netherlands, with a follow-up …

Understanding the effects of tobacco smoke on the pathogenesis of aortic aneurysm

PE Norman, JA Curci - Arteriosclerosis, thrombosis, and vascular …, 2013 - Am Heart Assoc
Aneurysmal arterial disease is a vascular degenerative condition that is distinct from
atherosclerotic and other occlusive arterial diseases. There is regionalization of the …

Genetic and epigenetic regulation of aortic aneurysms

HW Kim, BK Stansfield - BioMed Research International, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Aneurysms are characterized by structural deterioration of the vascular wall leading to
progressive dilatation and, potentially, rupture of the aorta. While aortic aneurysms often …

A sequence variant associated with sortilin-1 (SORT1) on 1p13.3 is independently associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm

GT Jones, MJ Bown, S Gretarsdottir… - Human molecular …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is a common human disease with a high estimated
heritability (0.7); however, only a small number of associated genetic loci have been …

The genetic basis for aortic aneurysmal disease

A Saratzis, MJ Bown - Heart, 2014 - heart.bmj.com
Aortic aneurysms are an important cause of cardiovascular death in elderly patients. At
present, little is known of the pathobiology of aneurysmal disease and this limits the ability to …