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Association Of The 9p21.3 Locus With Risk Of First-Ever Myocardial Infarction In Pakistanis, Saleheen D, Myriam Alexander, Asif Rasheed, Rashid Jooma
Association Of The 9p21.3 Locus With Risk Of First-Ever Myocardial Infarction In Pakistanis, Saleheen D, Myriam Alexander, Asif Rasheed, Rashid Jooma
Rashid Jooma
Abstract OBJECTIVE: To examine variants at the 9p21 locus in a case-control study of acute myocardial infarction (MI) in Pakistanis and to perform an updated meta-analysis of published studies in people of European ancestry. METHODS AND RESULTS: A total of 1851 patients with first-ever confirmed MI and 1903 controls were genotyped for 89 tagging single-nucleotide polymorphisms at locus 9p21, including the lead variant (rs1333049) identified by the Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium. Minor allele frequencies and extent of linkage disequilibrium observed in Pakistanis were broadly similar to those seen in Europeans. In the Pakistani study, 6 variants were associated with …