Tippfehler im Genom: erbliche Ursachen von Herzerkrankungen

Translated title of the contribution: Personalized medicine. Typos in the genome: Hereditary causes of heart diseases

Ingrid Bræne, Benedikt Reiz, Jeanette Erdmann*

*Corresponding author for this work

Abstract

Coronary artery disease (CAD) and its clinical manifestation myocardial infarction (MI) is the leading cause of death in the western world. Besides environmental factors, genetic factors largely influence the risk of the disease. Recently, several CAD risk loci have been identified. Only one third of these loci influence traditional risk factors as lipid traits and blood pressure. However, two thirds are unforeseen risk loci that may give new insight to the pathomechanism of CAD. The goal of this research field is to reveal new therapeutic targets and enable a stratified treatment.

Translated title of the contributionPersonalized medicine. Typos in the genome: Hereditary causes of heart diseases
Original languageGerman
JournalBioSpektrum
Volume19
Issue number6
Pages (from-to)642-644
Number of pages3
ISSN0947-0867
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10.2013

Research Areas and Centers

  • Research Area: Medical Genetics

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