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The CARDIoGRAM consortium combined data from published and unpublished genome-wide association studies in individuals of European ancestry, pooling more than 22,000 coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction cases and 60,000 controls across multiple cohorts including LURIC. Meta-analysis of rs1333049 at 9p21 demonstrated a 29% increased risk for myocardial infarction per copy (p = 2 x 10^-20), establishing the consortium as a resource for discovering novel common genetic susceptibility loci for coronary artery disease.
Circulation. Cardiovascular Genetics, 5. Oktober 2010 | PMID 20923989