Association between polymorphic blood markers and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in a large pedigree
✍ Scribed by Dr. Varghese T. George; Robert C. Elston; Chris I. Amos; Laura J. Ward; Gerald S. Berenson; D. C. Rao
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 557 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0741-0395
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✦ Synopsis
A large pedigree with high prevalence of heart disease is investigated to analyse the association between polymorphic blood markers and quantitative risk factors for cardiovascular disease. The analysis incorporates a familial correlation structure among the individuals in the pedigree and a generalized power transformation to induce approximate residual normality of the risk factors. A total of 380 marker/risk factor combinations are analysed, and at the normal 1% significance level, positive associations are found between the A antigen of the ABO locus and both serum total cholesterol and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and negative associations are found between the B antigen of the ABO locus and serum total cholesterol, and between the B allele of acid phosphatase (AP) locus and systolic blood pressure.