Joint Associations of 61 Genetic Variants in the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor Genes with Subclinical Atherosclerosis in American Indians: A Gene-Family Analysis Running title: Yang et al.; nAChR gene family and atherosclerosis in AIs
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Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA; Center for American Indian Health Research, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK; Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, TX; Missouri Breaks Industries Research Inc., Timber Lake, SD; The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY; MedStar Health Research Institute Hyattsville, MD & Georgetown and Howard Universities Centers for Translational Sciences, Washington DC *contributed equally
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