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Published in final edited form as: Nat Genet. 2013 November ; 45(11): 1345–1352. doi:10.1038/ng.2795.
Common variants associated with plasma triglycerides and risk for coronary artery disease A full list of authors and affiliations appears at the end of the article.
Abstract
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Triglycerides are transported in plasma by specific triglyceride-rich lipoproteins; in epidemiologic studies, increased triglyceride levels correlate with higher risk for coronary artery disease (CAD). However, it is unclear whether this association reflects causal processes. We used 185 common variants recently mapped for plasma lipids (P
