Extreme Phenotype Approach Suggests Taste Transduction Pathway for Carotid Plaque in a Multi-Ethnic Cohort.
Dueker ND, Doliner B, Gardener H et al.
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Background and purpose: Carotid plaque is a heritable trait and a strong predictor of vascular events. Several loci have been identified for carotid plaque, however, studies in minority populations are lacking. Within a multi-ethnic cohort, we have identified individuals with extreme total carotid plaque area (TCPA), that is, higher or lower TCPA than expected based on traditional vascular risk factors (age, sex, smoking, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, etc). We hypothesized that these individuals are enriched with genetic variants accounting for the plaque burden that cannot be explained by traditional vascular risk factors. Herein, we sought to identify the genetic basis for TCPA using the multi-ethnic cohort.
180 Hispanic individuals, 100 Black individuals, 60 European ancestry individuals
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