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High heritability of ascending aortic diameter and trans-ancestry prediction of thoracic aortic disease
Enlargement of the aorta is an important risk factor for aortic aneurysm and dissection, a leading cause of morbidity in the developed world. Here we performed automated extraction of ascending aortic diameter...
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Open AccessMedical implications of technical accuracy in genome sequencing
As whole exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS) transition from research tools to clinical diagnostic tests, it is increasingly critical for sequencing methods and analysis pipelines to be te...
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Common polymorphisms of ALOX5 and ALOX5AP and risk of coronary artery disease
Recent human genetic studies suggest that allelic variants of leukotriene pathway genes influence the risk of clinical and subclinical atherosclerosis. We sequenced the promoter, exonic, and splice site region...