Krishna Aragam and Team Identify CD36 Variant Raising Cardiomyopathy Risk in African Ancestry
Krishna Aragam, Director of Cardiovascular Genomics at Cleveland Clinic, posted on LinkedIn:
”Our Nature Genetics paper describing an African ancestry-specific nonsense variant in CD36 associated with increased risk of dilated cardiomyopathy now has a corresponding Nature Research Briefing — a concise summary highlighting the key findings and broader implications, prepared together with first-author Jennifer Huffman.
[2-page PDF attached]
For the full paper, go here.
And last week’s discussion thread here.”
Title: An African ancestry-specific nonsense variant in CD36 is associated with a higher risk of dilated cardiomyopathy
Authors: Jennifer E. Huffman, Liam Gaziano, Zeina R. Al Sayed, Renae L. Judy, Laura M. Raffield, Kiran J. Biddinger, Brian Charest, Anant Chopra, David Gagnon, Xiuqing Guo, Vera Koledova, Michael G. Levin, Yuan-I Min, James P. Pirruccello, Nosheen Reza, Richard Ruan, Shefali Setia Verma, Bharath Ambale Venkatesh, Anurag Verma, Jie Yao, John Jeffrey Carr, Juan P. Casas, Kelly Cho, Joao A. C. Lima, Wendy S. Post, Daniel J. Rader, Marylyn D. Ritchie, Amil Shah, Kent D. Taylor, James G. Terry, Stephen S. Rich, Christopher J. O’Donnell, Lawrence S. Phillips, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Jerome I. Rotter, Peter W. F. Wilson, J. Michael Gaziano, Scott M. Damrauer, VA Million Veteran Program, Yan V. Sun, Patrick T. Ellinor, Jacob Joseph, Krishna G. Aragam

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