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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 May 12.
Published in final edited form as: Cell. 2022 May 2;185(10):1630–1645. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.04.004

Figure 5. Genetic factors contributing to atherosclerosis susceptibility.

Figure 5.

GWAS studies of CVD have identified about 200 loci that contain candidate genes that fit into several risk categories as indicated, although genes do not as yet fit into any known category. GWAS loci for CVD risk factors, including plasma lipid levels (Graham et al., 2021), hypertension (Cabrera et al., 2019), and diabetes (Mahajan et al., 2018), have each identified hundreds of additional, largely non-overlapping loci. [Figure adapted from (Erdmann et al., 2018)].