Publication Date:
2014-10-30
Description:
Article Statins are effectively used to prevent and manage cardiovascular disease, but patient response to these drugs is highly variable. Here, the authors identify two new genes associated with the response of LDL cholesterol to statins and advance our understanding of the genetic basis of drug response. Nature Communications doi: 10.1038/ncomms6068 Authors: Iris Postmus, Stella Trompet, Harshal A. Deshmukh, Michael R. Barnes, Xiaohui Li, Helen R. Warren, Daniel I. Chasman, Kaixin Zhou, Benoit J. Arsenault, Louise A. Donnelly, Kerri L. Wiggins, Christy L. Avery, Paula Griffin, QiPing Feng, Kent D. Taylor, Guo Li, Daniel S. Evans, Albert V. Smith, Catherine E. de Keyser, Andrew D. Johnson, Anton J. M. de Craen, David J. Stott, Brendan M. Buckley, Ian Ford, Rudi G. J. Westendorp, P. Eline Slagboom, Naveed Sattar, Patricia B. Munroe, Peter Sever, Neil Poulter, Alice Stanton, Denis C. Shields, Eoin O’Brien, Sue Shaw-Hawkins, Y.-D. Ida Chen, Deborah A. Nickerson, Joshua D. Smith, Marie Pierre Dubé, S. Matthijs Boekholdt, G. Kees Hovingh, John J. P. Kastelein, Paul M. McKeigue, John Betteridge, Andrew Neil, Paul N. Durrington, Alex Doney, Fiona Carr, Andrew Morris, Mark I. McCarthy, Leif Groop, Emma Ahlqvist, Joshua C. Bis, Kenneth Rice, Nicholas L. Smith, Thomas Lumley, Eric A. Whitsel, Til Stürmer, Eric Boerwinkle, Julius S. Ngwa, Christopher J. O’Donnell, Ramachandran S. Vasan, Wei-Qi Wei, Russell A. Wilke, Ching-Ti Liu, Fangui Sun, Xiuqing Guo, Susan R Heckbert, Wendy Post, Nona Sotoodehnia, Alice M. Arnold, Jeanette M. Stafford, Jingzhong Ding, David M. Herrington, Stephen B. Kritchevsky, Gudny Eiriksdottir, Leonore J. Launer, Tamara B. Harris, Audrey Y. Chu, Franco Giulianini, Jean G. MacFadyen, Bryan J. Barratt, Fredrik Nyberg, Bruno H. Stricker, André G. Uitterlinden, Albert Hofman, Fernando Rivadeneira, Valur Emilsson, Oscar H. Franco, Paul M. Ridker, Vilmundur Gudnason, Yongmei Liu, Joshua C. Denny, Christie M. Ballantyne, Jerome I. Rotter, L. Adrienne Cupples, Bruce M. Psaty, Colin N. A. Palmer, Jean-Claude Tardif, Helen M. Colhoun, Graham Hitman, Ronald M. Krauss, J Wouter Jukema, Mark J. Caulfield
Electronic ISSN:
2041-1723
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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