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Project

The high- throughput identification and validation of epigenetic biomarkers for cardiovascular disease.
Code
01E05609
Duration
01 October 2009 → 30 September 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Natural sciences
    • Scientific computing
    • Bioinformatics and computational biology
  • Medical and health sciences
    • Bioinformatics and computational biology
    • Cardiac and vascular medicine
    • Bioinformatics and computational biology
    • Cardiac and vascular medicine
    • Public health care
    • Public health services
    • Bioinformatics and computational biology
    • Cardiac and vascular medicine
  • Engineering and technology
    • Scientific computing
Keywords
high throughput methods risk stratification data analysis cardiovascular diseases asklepios study epigenetics
 
Project description
 

In the Western World, cardiovascular diseases (CVD) represent the most important cause of death. The interaction between aging, genetics and lifestyle in the development of CVD pints towards an epigenetic component. Therefore, a high- throughput epigenetic profiling of CVD will be performed, based on samples from the longitudinal Asklepios study. This may deepen the understanding of the molecular pathology of CVD