Normal allele: GG
Low-density lipoprotein receptor polymorphisms are associated with risk of atherosclerotic vascular disease.
Polymorphism rs6511720 is related to topics like this:
Research and publications:
18196181 Correction of population stratification in large multi-ethnic association studies
18852197 Metabolic and cardiovascular traits: an abundance of recently identified common genetic variants
19060906 Common variants at 30 loci contribute to polygenic dyslipidemia.
19060910 Genome-wide association analysis of metabolic traits in a birth cohort from a founder population
19060911 Loci influencing lipid levels and coronary heart disease risk in 16 European population cohorts.
19408013 Strategies and issues in the detection of pathway enrichment in genome-wide association studies
19750184 Genome-wide association studies for atherosclerotic vascular disease and its risk factors.
21507254 Geographic differences in allele frequencies of susceptibility SNPs for cardiovascular disease.
21860704 Implications of discoveries from genome-wide association studies in current cardiovascular practice.
21875899 Thirty-five common variants for coronary artery disease: the fruits of much collaborative labour.
21966275 Large-scale gene-centric analysis identifies novel variants for coronary artery disease.
21977987 Replication of LDL GWAs hits in PROSPER/PHASE as validation for future (pharmaco)genetic analyses.
22567092 MultiPhen: joint model of multiple phenotypes can increase discovery in GWAS.
22629316 Multi-ethnic analysis of lipid-associated loci: the NHLBI CARe project.
22972380 Investigation of genetic risk factors for chronic adult diseases for association with preterm birth
23098650 Impact of variants within seven candidate genes on statin treatment efficacy.
23150898 Evaluation of seven common lipid associated loci in a large Indian sib pair study.
23236364 Gene-centric meta-analysis of lipid traits in African, East Asian and Hispanic populations.
24274136 Biobanking across the phenome - at the center of chronic disease research.
24834361 Update on abdominal aortic aneurysm research: from clinical to genetic studies.
25050552 A systematic evaluation of short tandem repeats in lipid candidate genes: riding on the SNP-wave.
25951190 Networks in Coronary Heart Disease Genetics As a Step towards Systems Epidemiology.
26559855 Genetic and Environmental Effects on the Abdominal Aortic Diameter Development.
27294088 Genetics of the acute coronary syndrome.
27418160 Shared Genetic Risk Factors of Intracranial, Abdominal, and Thoracic Aneurysms.
28456096 Identifying low density lipoprotein cholesterol associated variants in the Annexin A2 (ANXA2) gene.
28539666 Replication and fine-mapping of genetic predictors of lipid traits in African-Americans.