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Last Posted: Jul 20, 2017

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• The Cost-effectiveness of Genetic Screening for Familial Hypercholesterolemia: a Systematic Review.  
  Rosso A et al. Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunita 29(5) 464-480
• Is ANGPTL3 a Target to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk?  
  NEJM video, July 18, 2017,
• Issues and Challenges in Diagnostic Sequencing for Inherited Cardiac Conditions.  
  Walsh Roddy et al. Clinical chemistry 2017 Jan 63(1) 116-128
• Assessment of the clinical utility of adding common single nucleotide polymorphism genetic scores to classical risk factor algorithms in coronary heart disease risk prediction in UK men.  
  Beaney Katherine E et al. Clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine 2017 Jun
• Greater preclinical atherosclerosis in treated monogenic familial hypercholesterolemia vs. polygenic hypercholesterolemia.  
  Sharifi Mahtab et al. Atherosclerosis 2017 May
• Identification of 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome via Newborn Screening for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency.  
  Barry Jessica C et al. Journal of clinical immunology 2017 May
• Polygenic Risk Score Identifies Subgroup with Higher Burden of Atherosclerosis and Greater Relative Benefit from Statin Therapy in the Primary Prevention Setting.  
  Natarajan Pradeep et al. Circulation 2017 Feb
• Common Variants for Cardiovascular Disease- Clinical Utility Confirmed  
  SE Humphries, Circulation, editorial, May 30, 2017
• Association between a common immunoglobulin heavy chain allele and rheumatic heart disease risk in Oceania.  
  Parks Tom et al. Nature communications 2017 May 14946
• Genotype Positive Long QT Syndrome in Patients With Coexisting Congenital Heart Disease.  
  Ebrahim Mohammed A et al. The American journal of cardiology 2017 Apr
• Health risks for ataxia-telangiectasia mutated heterozygotes: a systematic review, meta-analysis and evidence-based guideline.  
  van Os N J H et al. Clinical genetics 2016 Aug 90(2) 105-17
• Recent advances in genetic testing for familial hypercholesterolemia.  
  Iacocca Michael A et al. Expert review of molecular diagnostics 2017 May
• Scientists make strides in hunt for genetic causes of heart disease,  
  by Tracie White, Scope Blog, May 22, 2017
• Genetics of coronary artery disease: discovery, biology and clinical translation  
  AV Khera et al, Nature Rev Genetics, 2017
• Fifteen new risk loci for coronary artery disease highlight arterial-wall-specific mechanisms  
  J MM Howson et al, Nature Genetics
• Heritability and risks associated with early onset hypertension: multigenerational, prospective analysis in the Framingham Heart Study.  
  Niiranen Teemu J et al. BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 2017 May 357j1949

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