DNA variants explain over ten percent of inherited genetic risk for heart disease
Thursday, November 8, 2012 - 21:30
in Biology & Nature
Researchers have pinpointed 20 previously unidentified DNA mutations during a meta-analysis of 63,746 patients with coronary heart disease. Many of the newly identified variations are in genes that operate in biological pathways involved in the body's metabolism of lipids or fats as well as in inflammation.