Locus 9p21.3 CAD Risk Across Diverse Populations: LD and Allelic Heterogeneity Explain Variation Across Ancestries and Reduced Replication in Africans
Hasan Alkhairo, Satoshi Koyama, Kruthika Raman Iyer…·Catherine Tcheandjieu
The paper investigates why the 9p21.3 CAD risk locus fails to replicate in African ancestry cohorts, finding ancestry-specific LD and haplotype diversity explain the lack of association.