HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY Periodontitis, a gum disease, can lead to a litany of dental issues from bad breath to bleeding and lost teeth. Now, researchers at Hiroshima University have found that it could be connected to even more severe problems elsewhere in the body — the heart. In a study published on Oct. 31 in JACC: Clinical...
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The best genetic predictors of heart arrhythmia and hidden comorbidity
by RIKEN Manhattan plot for the cross-ancestry meta-analysis. The results of the cross-ancestry meta-analysis (77,690 AF cases and 1,167,040 controls) are shown. The log10 BFs on the y axis are shown against the genomic positions (hg19) on the x axis. Association signals that reached a genome-wide significance level (log10 BF > 6) are shown in blue if previously reported...