Genetic analysis of over half a million people characterises C-reactive protein loci
oleh: Saredo Said, Raha Pazoki, Ville Karhunen, Urmo Võsa, Symen Ligthart, Barbara Bodinier, Fotios Koskeridis, Paul Welsh, Behrooz Z. Alizadeh, Daniel I. Chasman, Naveed Sattar, Marc Chadeau-Hyam, Evangelos Evangelou, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Paul Elliott, Ioanna Tzoulaki, Abbas Dehghan
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| Diterbitkan: | Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01 |
Deskripsi
Inflammation is associated with a variety of diseases. Here, the authors identify 266 genetic loci associated with C-reactive protein levels, a marker of inflammation, in >500,000 Europeans, along with associated pathways, clinical outcomes and potential causal associations with disease.