Genome-wide transcriptome study using deep RNA sequencing for myocardial infarction and coronary artery calcification

• Main Authors: Xiaoling Zhang (Author), Jeroen G. J. van Rooij (Author), Yoshiyuki Wakabayashi (Author), Shih-Jen Hwang (Author), Yanqin Yang (Author), Mohsen Ghanbari (Author), Daniel Bos (Author), BIOS Consortium (Author), Daniel Levy (Author), Andrew D. Johnson (Author), Joyce B. J. van Meurs (Author), Maryam Kavousi (Author), Jun Zhu (Author), Christopher J. O'Donnell (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2021-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Coronary artery calcification (CAC) is a noninvasive measure of coronary atherosclerosis, the proximal pathophysiology underlying most cases of myocardial infarction (MI). We sought to identify expression signatures of early MI and subclinical atherosclerosis in the Framingham He...