[To address the question of whether common variants within the coding sequence of ABCA1 may affect plasma HDL-C levels and CHD risk in the general population, we determined the frequencies of three common ABCA1 variants (G596A, A2589G and G3456C) in men participating in the Veterans Affairs Cooperative HDL Cholesterol Intervention Trial (VA-HIT), a study designed to examine the benefits of HDL raising in men having low HDL-C (< or =40 mg/dl) and established CHD, as well as in CHD-free men from the Framingham Offspring Study (FOS).]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
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