Genomics|Update|Current: Chronic Diseases

Genomics|Update|Current

Chronic Diseases

Association of CHRNA5-A3-B4 SNP rs2036527 with smoking cessation therapy response in African-American smokers
Zhu A, et al. Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics 2014 Jun 4

Gene expression profiles associated with acute myocardial infarction and risk of cardiovascular death
Jinhee Kim et al. Genome Medicine, May 30,  2014 

Personalizing care in coronary heart disease, by Kam Marwaha, Biomed Central blog, May 30

Genetic test to stop smoking (GeTSS) trial protocol: randomised controlled trial of a genetic test (Respiragene) and Auckland formula to assess lung cancer risk 
Nichols JA, et al. BMC Pulm Med 2014 May;14(1):77

Help or hindrance: Young people's experiences of predictive testing for Huntington's disease
Forrest Keenan K, et al. Clin Genet 2014 May

Homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia: the c.1055 G>A mutation in the LDLR gene and clinical heterogeneity
María Teresa Magaña Torre et al. J Clinical Lipidology, May 2014 

Alzheimer's disease: The forgetting gene, by Laura Spinney, Nature News, Jun 4