Atherosclerosis
Volume 193, Issue 2 , Pages 352-360 , August 2007

Associations between two common polymorphisms in the ABCA1 gene and subclinical atherosclerosis: Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA)

  • Jeana L. Benton

      Affiliations

    • The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, United States
    • ,
  • Jingzhong Ding

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine/Geriatrics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
    • ,
  • Michael Y. Tsai

      Affiliations

    • Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, United States
    • ,
  • Steven Shea

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
    • Department of Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States
    • ,
  • Jerome I. Rotter

      Affiliations

    • Medical Genetics Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, United States
    • ,
  • Gregory L. Burke

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC, United States
    • ,
  • Wendy Post

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Blalock 910H, 600 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21287, United States
    • Department of Epidemiology, The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 410 955 7376; fax: +1 443 287 0121.

Received 15 February 2006 ,Revised 9 May 2006 ,Accepted 9 June 2006.

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doi: 10.1016/j.atherosclerosis.2006.06.024

Atherosclerosis
Volume 193, Issue 2 , Pages 352-360 , August 2007

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