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Genetic variant common among West African descendants contributes to large cardiovascular disease burden

A new study in JAMA identifies a genetic variant commonly found in people of West African descent that raises a type of cardiovascular disease risk.
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Among cardiologists, it’s known that transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis, a type of heart disease, is caused by the misfolding of a protein called transthyretin, which

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