
Functional interaction between COL4A1/COL4A2 and SMAD3 risk loci for coronary artery disease
Keywords: TGFβ; SMAD3; COL4A1; COL4A2; Type IV collagen; Coronary artery disease; Atherosclerosis; Epistasis; AoSMCs; primary aortic smooth muscle cells; CAD; coronary artery disease; GWAS; genome-wide association study; LD; linkage disequilibrium; qRT-PCR; quanti