Genetically determined height and coronary artery disease.

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Published in N Engl J Med on April 08, 2015

Authors

Christopher P Nelson1, Stephen E Hamby, Danish Saleheen, Jenna C Hopewell, Lingyao Zeng, Themistocles L Assimes, Stavroula Kanoni, Christina Willenborg, Stephen Burgess, Phillipe Amouyel, Sonia Anand, Stefan Blankenberg, Bernhard O Boehm, Robert J Clarke, Rory Collins, George Dedoussis, Martin Farrall, Paul W Franks, Leif Groop, Alistair S Hall, Anders Hamsten, Christian Hengstenberg, G Kees Hovingh, Erik Ingelsson, Sekar Kathiresan, Frank Kee, Inke R König, Jaspal Kooner, Terho Lehtimäki, Winifred März, Ruth McPherson, Andres Metspalu, Markku S Nieminen, Christopher J O'Donnell, Colin N A Palmer, Annette Peters, Markus Perola, Muredach P Reilly, Samuli Ripatti, Robert Roberts, Veikko Salomaa, Svati H Shah, Stefan Schreiber, Agneta Siegbahn, Unnur Thorsteinsdottir, Giovani Veronesi, Nicholas Wareham, Cristen J Willer, Pierre A Zalloua, Jeanette Erdmann, Panos Deloukas, Hugh Watkins, Heribert Schunkert, John Danesh, John R Thompson, Nilesh J Samani, CARDIoGRAM+C4D Consortium

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