Coronary Heart Disease Genetic Risk Score Predicts Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Men, Not Women

Circ Genom Precis Med. 2018 Oct;11(10):e002324. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGEN.118.002324.

Catherine Hajek^{1

2}, Xiuqing Guo¹, Jie Yao¹, Yang Hai¹, W Craig Johnson³, Alexis C Frazier-Wood⁴, Wendy S Post⁵, Bruce M Psaty^{6

7}, Kent D Taylor¹, Jerome I Rotter¹

¹ Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute (LA BioMed), CA (C.H., X.G., J.Y., Y.H., K.D.T., J.I.R.).
² Department of Internal Medicine, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Vermillion (C.H.).
³ Department of Biostatistics, Collaborative Health Studies Coordinating Center, University of Washington, Seattle (W.C.J.).
⁴ Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (A.C.F.-W.).
⁵ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (W.S.P.).
⁶ Cardiovascular Health Research Unit, Departments of Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Services, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (B.M.P.).
⁷ Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle, WA (B.M.P.). Group Health Research Institute, Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, WA.

No abstract available

Keywords: atherosclerosis; genetics; linkage disequilibrium; odds ratio; risk assessment.

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