Abstract
Elevated plasma levels of C-reactive protein (CRP), an inflammation- sensitive marker, have emerged as an important predictor of future cardiovascular disease and metabolic abnormalities in apparently healthy men and women. Here, we performed a systematic survey of common nucleotide variation across the genomic region encompassing the CRP gene locus. Of the common single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified, several in the CRP promoter region are strongly associated with CRP levels in a large cohort study of cardiovascular risk in European American and African American young adults. We also demonstrate the functional importance of these SNPs in vitro.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 64-77 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | American Journal of Human Genetics |
| Volume | 77 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2005 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by Inflammatory Genomics and Atherosclerosis Prevention ancillary CARDIA grant HL71017 (to D.S.), by CARDIA contracts N01-HC-95095, N01-HC-48047, N01-HC-48048, N01-HC-48049, N01-HC-48050, N01-HC-45134, and N01-HC-05187 from NHLBI, and by NHLBI Program for Genomic Applications grants HL66682 and HL66642 (to D.N. and M.R.).
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