Zeroing in on heart disease: Innovative strategy pinpoints genes underlying cardiovascular disease risk
Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 20:00
in Health & Medicine
Studies screening the genome of hundreds of thousands of individuals (known as Genome-wide association studies or GWAS) have linked more than 100 regions in the genome to the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Researchers are taking these results one step further by pinpointing the exact genes that could have a role in the onset of the disease.