Credit: DAN ADDISON | UVA COMMUNICATIONS
“BY SHARING VALUABLE GENOTYPE AND PHENOTYPE DATASETS COLLECTED OVER MANY YEARS, OUR TEAM WAS ABLE TO UNCOVER NEW GENES THAT MAY FORESHADOW CLINICAL CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE,” SAID RESEARCHER CLINT L. MILLER, PHD, OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE’S CENTER FOR PUBLIC HEALTH GENOMICS. “THIS IS A CRITICAL FIRST STEP IN IDENTIFYING THE BIOLOGICAL MECHANISMS TO TARGET FOR PRIMARY PREVENTION OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE.”