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ReviewThe American journal of pathology2024

The Role of Endothelial Cells in Atherosclerosis: Insights from Genetic Association Studies.

Mark E Pepin, Rajat M Gupta

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Review in The American journal of pathology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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44citing papers in PubMed
8.9field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mark E PepinCardiovascular Disease Initiative, The Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Divisions of Genetics and Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Rajat M GuptaCardiovascular Disease Initiative, The Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Divisions of Genetics and Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: rgupta@bwh.harvard.edu.
Broad Institute · US

Funding

Mapping, modeling, and manipulating 3D contacts in vascular cells to connect risk variants to disease genesR01HL159176 · NHLBI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI ENGREITZ, JESSE M · 2022 to 2025
$2.8M
A genetic approach to identify the common mechanisms of vascular diseaseDP2HL152423 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI GUPTA, RAJAT M · 2019 to 2022
$2.8M
High-throughput cellular genetics to connect noncoding variants to coronary artery disease genesR01HL164811 · NHLBI · BROAD INSTITUTE, INC. · PI JESSE M ENGREITZ, RAJAT M GUPTA · 2023 to 2026
$2.7M
Identifying the organotypic and disease-specific vascular cell populations by integrating single cell data with polygenic riskU01HL166060 · NHLBI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI GUPTA, RAJAT M, SEGRE, AYELLET VERED · 2022 to 2025
$2.2M
NHLBI NIH HHS DP2 HL152423NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL159176NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL164811NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL166060
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Endothelial cells (ECs) mediate several biological functions that are relevant to atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease (CAD), regulating an array of vital processes including vascular tone, wound healing, reactive oxygen species, shear stress response, and inflammation. Although which of these functions is linked causally with CAD development and/or progression is not yet known, genome-wide association studies have implicated more than 400 loci associated with CAD risk, among which several have shown EC-relevant functions. Given the arduous process of mechanistically interrogating single loci to CAD, high-throughput variant characterization methods, including pooled Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats screens, offer exciting potential to rapidly accelerate the discovery of bona fide EC-relevant genetic loci. These discoveries in turn will broaden the therapeutic avenues for CAD beyond lipid lowering and behavioral risk modification to include EC-centric modalities of risk prevention and treatment.

Indexed as

AtherosclerosisCoronary Artery DiseaseEndothelial CellsGenome-Wide Association StudyHumansInflammationPolymorphism, Single Nucleotide

Identifiers

PMID37827214
PMCPMC10988759
OpenAlexW4387515169

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