Winkelmann BR
An editorial introduced LURIC as a large-scale phenotypic database designed to identify genetic and environmental risk factors for cardiovascular disease and to link detailed clinical phenotyping with molecular genetic data. The piece argued that phenotypic precision must match the growing wealth of genomic information to enable meaningful genotype-phenotype association analyses. The initiative was intended to determine the prognostic role of novel markers and to examine pharmacogenomic influences on therapeutic response.
Pharmacogenomics, Februar 2001 | PMID 11258195