Genetic Link Between Arterial Stiffness and Atrial Fibrillation

Seyedeh M Zekavat; Carolina Roselli; George Hindy; Steven A Lubitz; Patrick T Ellinor; Hongyu Zhao; Pradeep Natarajan

doi:10.1161/CIRCGEN.118.002453

Genetic Link Between Arterial Stiffness and Atrial Fibrillation

Circ Genom Precis Med. 2019 Jun;12(6):e002453. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGEN.118.002453. Epub 2019 Jun 18.

Authors

Seyedeh M Zekavat^{1

2

3

4

5}, Carolina Roselli¹, George Hindy^{1

6}, Steven A Lubitz^{1

4

5

7}, Patrick T Ellinor^{1

4

5

7}, Hongyu Zhao^{3

8}, Pradeep Natarajan^{1

4

5

7}

Affiliations

¹ Program in Medical and Population Genetics, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA (S.M.Z., C.R., G.H., S.A.L., P.T.E., P.N.).
² Yale School of Medicine (S.M.Z.).
³ Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT (S.M.Z., H.Z.).
⁴ Center for Genomic Medicine (S.M.Z., S.A.L., P.T.E., P.N.).
⁵ Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston (S.M.Z., S.A.L., P.T.E., P.N.).
⁶ Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Malmö, Sweden (G.H.).
⁷ Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (S.A.L., P.T.E., P.N.).
⁸ Department of Biostatistics, Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, CT (H.Z.).

No abstract available

Keywords: atrial fibrillation; genomics; vascular stiffness.

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Atrial Fibrillation / genetics*
Databases, Genetic
Female
Genome-Wide Association Study
Humans
Male
Mendelian Randomization Analysis
Odds Ratio
Risk Factors
Vascular Stiffness / genetics*

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MeSH terms

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