CALiCo CARDIA
The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study is a study examining how heart disease develops in adults. It began in 1986 with a group of 5115 black and white men and women aged 18-30 years. The participants were selected so that there would be appr...
CALiCo ARIC
The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (ARIC), sponsored by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), is a prospective epidemiologic study conducted in four U.S. communities. ARIC is designed to investigate the etiology and natural history of atheroscler...
By relating hundreds of thousands of genotypes to only a few phenotypes, mostly in individuals of one ancestry, genome-wide association (GWA) studies are identifying a rapidly growing number of associations. The Population Architecture using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study is designed to f...