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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...

    Catherine Tcheandjieu, Ke **ao, Helio Tejeda, Julie A. Lynch in Nature Genetics (2022)

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    Medical 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...

    Rachel L. Goldfeder, James R. Priest, Justin M. Zook, Megan E. Grove in Genome Medicine (2016)

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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...

    Themistocles L. Assimes, Joshua W. Knowles, James R. Priest in Human Genetics (2008)