Journal article
Multi-ethnic genome-wide association study for atrial fibrillation
Abstract
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects more than 33 million individuals worldwide1 and has a complex heritability2. We conducted the largest meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for AF to date, consisting of more than half a million individuals, including 65,446 with AF. In total, we identified 97 loci significantly associated with AF, including 67 that were novel in a combined-ancestry analysis, and 3 that were novel in a …
Authors
Roselli C; Chaffin MD; Weng L-C; Aeschbacher S; Ahlberg G; Albert CM; Almgren P; Alonso A; Anderson CD; Aragam KG
Journal
Nature Genetics, Vol. 50, No. 9, pp. 1225–1233
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
9 2018
DOI
10.1038/s41588-018-0133-9
ISSN
1061-4036