Posts Tagged ‘heritability’

July 26th, 2011

Coronary and Cerebrovascular Disease May Differ in Their Heritability

Although coronary and cerebrovascular disease usually receive equal weight when family history is assessed as a risk factor, a new study suggests that family history may play a more important role in MI and ACS than in stroke or TIA. In an article published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, Amitava Banerjee and colleagues report the results of […]