Startup of Framingham Heart Study. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and serious illness in the United States. In 1948, the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) -- under the direction of the National Heart Institute (now known as the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institut...
In this paper (Gibbs et al., 2010, PMID: 20485568) we describe a comprehensive assessment of the correlation between common genetic variability across the human genome, gene expression and DNA methylation, within human b...