Genes responsible for risk of heart attack and stroke identified

Last updated: 2016-08-23
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Thousands of genes and their interactions across tissues mediating cardiometabolic diseases have been identified. The research, published in Science, is a result of a joint collaboration between the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Tartu University Hospital in Estonia, SciLifeLab / Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, and AstraZeneca.

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