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Enas A Enas1, Basil Varkey2, T S Dharmarajan3

  • 1Coronary Artery Disease in Indians (CADI) Research Foundation, Lisle, IL USA.

Indian Heart Journal
|July 9, 2019
PubMed

Keywords:
Acute myocardial infarctionCardiovascular diseaseGenetic risk factorGenome-wide association studiesIndiansIsoformsKringlesLipoprotein(a)Mendelian randomizationOxidized phospholipidsPremature coronary artery diseaseSingle nucleotide polymorphismmeta-analysis

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