Novel loci associated with increased risk of sudden cardiac death in the context of coronary artery disease.
Adriana Huertas-Vazquez,
Christopher P Nelson,
Xiuqing Guo,
Kyndaron Reinier,
Audrey Uy-Evanado,
Carmen Teodorescu,
Jo Ayala,
Katherine Jerger,
Harpriya Chugh,
WTCCC+,
Peter S Braund,
Panos Deloukas,
Alistair S Hall,
Anthony J Balmforth,
Michelle Jones,
Kent D Taylor,
Sara L Pulit,
Christopher Newton-Cheh,
Karen Gunson,
Jonathan Jui,
Jerome I Rotter,
Christine M Albert,
Nilesh J Samani,
Sumeet S Chugh
Nov 17, 2017
BACKGROUND: Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified novel loci associated with sudden cardiac death (SCD). Despite this progress, identified DNA variants account for a relatively small portion of overall...