Ganesh Lab

Ann Arbor, MI

Publications

  1. Yang ML, Xu C, Gupte T, Hoffmann TJ, Iribarren C, Zhou X, Ganesh SK. Sex-specific genetic architecture of blood pressure. Nat Med. 2024 Mar 8. doi: 10.1038/s41591-024-02858-2. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 38459180.
  2. Katz AE, Ganesh SK. Advancements in the Genetics of Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2023 Dec;25(12):1735-1743. doi: 10.1007/s11886-023-01989-1. Epub 2023 Nov 18. PMID: 37979122; PMCID: PMC10810930.
  3. Lee D, Han SK, Yaacov O, Berk-Rauch H, Mathiyalagan P, Ganesh SK, Chakravarti A. Tissue-specific and tissue-agnostic effects of genome sequence variation modulating blood pressure. Cell Rep. 2023 Nov 28;42(11):113351. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2023.113351. Epub 2023 Nov 1. PMID: 37910504.
  4. Roychowdhury T, Klarin D, Levin MG, Spin JM, Rhee YH, Deng A, Headley CA, Tsao NL, Gellatly C, Zuber V, Shen F, Hornsby WE, Laursen IH, Verma SS, Locke AE, Einarsson G, Thorleifsson G, Graham SE, Dikilitas O, Pattee JW, Judy RL, Pauls-Verges F, Nielsen JB, Wolford BN, Brumpton BM, Dilmé J, Peypoch O, Juscafresa LC, Edwards TL, Li D, Banasik K, Brunak S, Jacobsen RL, Garcia-Barrio MT, Zhang J, Rasmussen LM, Lee R, Handa A, Wanhainen A, Mani K, Lindholt JS, Obel LM, Strauss E, Oszkinis G, Nelson CP, Saxby KL, van Herwaarden JA, van der Laan SW, van Setten J, Camacho M, Davis FM, Wasikowski R, Tsoi LC, Gudjonsson JE, Eliason JL, Coleman DM, Henke PK, Ganesh SK, Chen YE, Guan W, Pankow JS, Pankratz N, Pedersen OB, Erikstrup C, Tang W, Hveem K, Gudbjartsson D, Gretarsdottir S, Thorsteinsdottir U, Holm H, Stefansson K, Ferreira MA, Baras A, Kullo IJ, Ritchie MD, Christensen AH, Iversen KK, Eldrup N, Sillesen H, Ostrowski SR, Bundgaard H, Ullum H, Burgess S, Gill D, Gallagher K, Sabater-Lleal M; DiscovEHR; Regeneron Genetics Center; UK Aneurysm Growth Study; DBDS Genomic Consortium; VA Million Veteran Program; Surakka I, Jones GT, Bown MJ, Tsao PS, Willer CJ, Damrauer SM. Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies risk loci for abdominal aortic aneurysm and highlights PCSK9 as a therapeutic target. Nat Genet. 2023 Nov;55(11):1831-1842. doi: 10.1038/s41588-023-01510-y. Epub 2023 Oct 16. PMID: 37845353; PMCID: PMC10632148.
  5. Adlam D, Berrandou TE, Georges A, Nelson CP, Giannoulatou E, Henry J, Ma L, Blencowe M, Turley TN, Yang ML, Chopade S, Finan C, Braund PS, Sadeg-Sayoud I, Iismaa SE, Kosel ML, Zhou X, Hamby SE, Cheng J, Liu L, Tarr I, Muller DWM, d’Escamard V, King A, Brunham LR, Baranowska-Clarke AA, Debette S, Amouyel P, Olin JW, Patil S, Hesselson SE, Junday K, Kanoni S, Aragam KG, Butterworth AS; CARDIoGRAMPlusC4D; MEGASTROKE; International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC) Intracranial Aneurysm Working Group; Tweet MS, Gulati R, Combaret N; DISCO register; Kadian-Dodov D, Kalman JM, Fatkin D, Hingorani AD, Saw J, Webb TR, Hayes SN, Yang X, Ganesh SK, Olson TM, Kovacic JC, Graham RM, Samani NJ, Bouatia-Naji N. Genome-wide association meta-analysis of spontaneous coronary artery dissection identifies risk variants and genes related to artery integrity and tissue-mediated coagulation. Nat Genet. 2023 Jun;55(6):964-972. doi: 10.1038/s41588-023-01410-1. Epub 2023 May 29. PMID: 37248441; PMCID: PMC10260398.
  6. Hesson AM, Langen ES, Plazyo O, Gudjonsson JE, Ganesh SK. Placental transcriptome analysis of hypertensive pregnancies identifies distinct gene expression profiles of preeclampsia superimposed on chronic hypertension. BMC Med Genomics. 2023 May 2;16(1):91. doi: 10.1186/s12920-023-01522-x. PMID: 37131171; PMCID: PMC10152005.
  7. Bakker MK, Kanning JP, Abraham G, Martinsen AE, Winsvold BS, Zwart JA, Bourcier R, Sawada T, Koido M, Kamatani Y, Morel S, Amouyel P, Debette S, Bijlenga P, Berrandou T, Ganesh SK, Bouatia-Naji N, Jones G, Bown M, Rinkel GJE, Veldink JH, Ruigrok YM; HUNT All-In Stroke, CADISP group, International Consortium for Blood Pressure, International Headache Genetics Consortium, International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC) Intracranial Aneurysm Working Group. Genetic Risk Score for Intracranial Aneurysms: Prediction of Subarachnoid Hemorrhage and Role in Clinical Heterogeneity. Stroke. 2023 Mar;54(3):810-818. doi: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.122.040715. Epub 2023 Jan 19. PMID: 36655558; PMCID: PMC9951795.
  8. Katz AE, Yang ML, Levin MG, Tcheandjieu C, Mathis M, Hunker K, Blackburn S, Eliason JL, Coleman DM, Fendrikova-Mahlay N, Gornik HL, Karmakar M, Hill H, Xu C, Zawistowski M, Brummett CM, Zoellner S, Zhou X, O’Donnell C, Douglas JA, Assimes TL, Tsao PS, Li JZ, Damrauer SM, Stanley JC, Ganesh SK; VA Million Veteran Program. Fibromuscular Dysplasia and Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms Are Dimorphic Sex-Specific Diseases With Shared Complex Genetic Architecture. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2022 Nov 14:e003496. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGEN.121.003496. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36374587.
  9. Saw J, Starovoytov A, Aymong E, Inohara T, Alfadhel M, McAlister C, Samuel R, Grewal T, Parolis JA, Sheth T, So D, Minhas K, Brass N, Lavoie A, Bishop H, Lavi S, Pearce C, Renner S, Madan M, Welsh RC, McGrath BM, Vijayaraghavan R, Har B, Ibrahim R, Chaudhary P, Ganesh SK, Graham J, Matteau A, Martucci G, Ko DT, Humphries K, Mancini GJ. Canadian Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection Cohort Study: 3-Year Outcomes. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022 Oct 25;80(17):1585-1597. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2022.08.759. PMID: 36265953.
  10. McAlister C, Alfadhel M, Samuel R, Starovoytov A, Parolis JA, Grewal T, Aymong E, Sedlak T, Ganesh SK, Saw J. Differences in Demographics and Outcomes Between Men and Women With Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 2022 Oct 24;15(20):2052-2061. doi: 10.1016/j.jcin.2022.08.023. PMID: 36265936.
  11. Wang Y, Starovoytov A, Murad AM, Hunker KL, Brunham LR, Li JZ, Saw J, Ganesh SK. Burden of Rare Genetic Variants in Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection With High-risk Features. JAMA Cardiol. 2022 Oct 1;7(10):1045-1055. doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2022.2970. PMID: 36103205; PMCID: PMC9475437.
  12. Wang Y, Richer J, Ganesh SK. Letter to the Editor Regarding Lavanya et al. A patient with a novel pathogenic variant in COL5A1 exhibiting prominent vascular and cardiac features. Am J Med Genet A. 2022 Sep;188(9):2832-2833. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62875. Epub 2022 Jun 28. PMID: 35762247.
  13. Heider A, Gordon D, Coleman DM, Eliason JL, Ganesh SK, Stanley JC. Histologic and morphologic character of pediatric abdominal aortic developmental coarctation and hypoplasia. J Vasc Surg. 2022 Aug;76(2):556-563.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2022.01.121. Epub 2022 Feb 9. PMID: 35149163.
  14. Coleman DM, Wang Y, Yang ML, Hunker KL, Birt I, Bergin IL, Li JZ, Stanley JC, Ganesh SK. Molecular genetic evaluation of pediatric renovascular hypertension due to renal artery stenosis and abdominal aortic coarctation in neurofibromatosis type 1. Hum Mol Genet. 2022 Feb 3;31(3):334-346. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddab241. PMID: 34476477; PMCID: PMC8825256.
  15. Murad AM, Hill HL, Wang Y, Ghannam M, Yang ML, Pugh NL, Asch FM, Hornsby W, Driscoll A, McNamara J, Willer CJ, Regalado ES; GenTAC Investigators; Montalcino Aortic Consortium Investigators, Milewicz DM, Eagle KA, Ganesh SK. Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is infrequent in individuals with heritable thoracic aortic disease despite partially shared genetic susceptibility. Am J Med Genet A. 2022 Jan 29. doi: 10.1002/ajmg.a.62661. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35092149.
  16. Georges A, Yang ML, Berrandou TE, Bakker MK, Dikilitas O, Kiando SR, Ma L, Satterfield BA, Sengupta S, Yu M, Deleuze JF, Dupré D, Hunker KL, Kyryachenko S, Liu L, Sayoud-Sadeg I, Amar L, Brummett CM, Coleman DM, d’Escamard V, de Leeuw P, Fendrikova-Mahlay N, Kadian-Dodov D, Li JZ, Lorthioir A, Pappaccogli M, Prejbisz A, Smigielski W, Stanley JC, Zawistowski M, Zhou X, Zöllner S; FEIRI investigators; International Stroke Genetics Consortium (ISGC) Intracranial Aneurysm Working Group; MEGASTROKE, Amouyel P, De Buyzere ML, Debette S, Dobrowolski P, Drygas W, Gornik HL, Olin JW, Piwonski J, Rietzschel ER, Ruigrok YM, Vikkula M, Warchol Celinska E, Januszewicz A, Kullo IJ, Azizi M, Jeunemaitre X, Persu A, Kovacic JC, Ganesh SK, Bouatia-Naji N. Genetic investigation of fibromuscular dysplasia identifies risk loci and shared genetics with common cardiovascular diseases. Nat Commun. 2021 Oct 15;12(1):6031. doi: 10.1038/s41467-021-26174-2. PMID: 34654805.
  17. Aslam A, Stojanovska J, Khokhar US, Weinberg RL, Ganesh SK, Labounty T, Sutton NR, Patel S. Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: An Underdiagnosed Clinical Entity-A Primer for Cardiac Imagers. Radiographics. 2021 Oct 15:210062. doi: 10.1148/rg.2021210062. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34652974.
  18. Sun P, Kumar N, Tin A, Zhao J, Brown MR, Lin Z, Yang ML, Zheng Q, Jia J, Bielak LF, Yu B, Boerwinkle E, Hunker KL, Coresh J, Chen YE, Huo Y, Kardia SLR, Khoriaty R, Zhou X, Morrison AC, Zhang Y, Ganesh SK. Epidemiologic and Genetic Associations of Erythropoietin With Blood Pressure, Hypertension, and Coronary Artery Disease. Hypertension. 2021 Nov;78(5):1555-1566. doi: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.121.17597. Epub 2021 Sep 7. PMID: 34488438; PMCID: PMC8516734.
  19. Coleman DM, Wang Y, Yang ML, Hunker KL, Birt I, Bergin IL, Li JZ, Stanley JC, Ganesh SK. Molecular genetic evaluation of Pediatric Renovascular hypertension due to renal artery stenosis and abdominal aortic Coarctation in Neurofibromatosis type 1. Hum Mol Genet. 2021 Sep 2:ddab241. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddab241. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 34476477.
  20. Grunwald H, Hunker KL, Birt I, Aviram R, Zaffryar-Eilot S, Ganesh SK, Hasson P. Lysyl oxidase interactions with transforming growth factor-β during angiogenesis are mediated by endothelin 1. FASEB J. 2021 Sep;35(9):e21824. doi: 10.1096/fj.202001860RR. PMID: 34370353.
  21. Kim ESH, Saw J, Kadian-Dodov D, Wood M, Ganesh SK. FMD and SCAD: Sex-Biased Arterial Diseases With Clinical and Genetic Pleiotropy. Circ Res. 2021 Jun 11;128(12):1958-1972. doi: 10.1161/CIRCRESAHA.121.318300. Epub 2021 Jun 10. PMID: 34110898; PMCID: PMC8369814.
  22. Persu A, Dobrowolski P, Gornik HL, Olin JW, Adlam D, Azizi M, Boutouyrie P, Bruno RM, Boulanger M, Demoulin JB, Ganesh SK, Guzik T, Januszewicz M, Kovacic JC, Kruk M, Leeuw P, Loeys B, Pappaccogli M, Perik M, Touzé E, Van der Niepen P, Van Twist DJL, Warchoł-Celińska E, Prejbisz A, Januszewicz A. Current progress in clinical, molecular, and genetic aspects of adult fibromuscular dysplasia. Cardiovasc Res. 2021 Mar 19:cvab086. doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvab086. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33739371.
  23. Richer J, Hill HL, Wang Y, Yang ML, Hunker KL, Lane J, Blackburn S, Coleman DM, Eliason J, Sillon G, D’Agostino MD, Jetty P, Mongeon FP, Laberge AM, Ryan SE, Fendrikova-Mahlay N, Coutinho T, Mathis MR, Zawistowski M, Hazen SL, Katz AE, Gornik HL, Brummett CM, Abecasis G, Bergin IL, Stanley JC, Li JZ, Ganesh SK. Novel Recurrent COL5A1 Genetic Variant Is Associated With a Dysplasia-Associated Arterial Disease Exhibiting Dissections and Fibromuscular Dysplasia. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2020 Sep 17:ATVBAHA119313885. doi: 10.1161/ATVBAHA.119.313885. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32938213
  24. Saw J, Yang ML, Trinder M, Tcheandjieu C, Xu C, Starovoytov A, Birt I, Mathis MR, Hunker KL, Schmidt EM, Jackson L, Fendrikova-Mahlay N, Zawistowski M, Brummett CM, Zoellner S, Katz A, Coleman DM, Swan K, O’Donnell CJ; Million Veteran Program, Zhou X, Li JZ, Gornik HL, Assimes TL, Stanley JC, Brunham LR, Ganesh SK. Chromosome 1q21.2 and additional loci influence risk of spontaneous coronary artery dissection and myocardial infarction. Nat Commun. 2020 Sep 4;11(1):4432. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-17558-x. PMID: 32887874
  25. Georges A, Albuisson J, Berrandou T, Dupré D, Lorthioir A, D’Escamard V, Di Narzo AF, Kadian-Dodov D, Olin JW, Warchol-Celinska E, Prejbisz A, Januszewicz A, Bruneval P, Baranowska AA, Webb TR, Hamby SE, Samani NJ, Adlam D, Fendrikova-Mahlay N, Hazen S, Wang Y, Yang ML, Hunker K, Combaret N, Motreff P, Chédid A, Fiquet B, Plouin PF, Mousseaux E, Azarine A, Amar L, Azizi M, Gornik HL, Ganesh SK, Kovacic JC, Jeunemaitre X, Bouatia-Naji N. Rare Loss-of-function Mutations of PTGIR are enriched in Fibromuscular Dysplasia. Cardiovasc Res. 2020 Jun 12;. doi: 10.1093/cvr/cvaa161. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32531060
  26. Atchison DK, O’Connor CL, Menon R, Otto EA, Ganesh SK, Wiggins RC, Smrcka AV, Bitzer M. Hypertension induces glomerulosclerosis in phospholipase C-ε1 deficiency. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2020 May 1;318(5):F1177-F1187. doi: 10.1152/ajprenal.00541.2019. Epub 2020 Mar 30. PubMed PMID: 32223311; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7294338
  27. Coleman DM, Heider A, Gordon D, Ganesh SK, Eliason JL, Stanley JC. Histologic and morphologic character of pediatric renal artery occlusive disease. J Vasc Surg. 2020 Apr 8;. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2020.02.046. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32276022
  28. Coleman DM, Eliason JL, Beaulieu R, Jackson T, Karmakar M, Kershaw DB, Modi ZJ, Ganesh SK, Khaja MS, Williams D, Stanley JC. Surgical management of pediatric renin-mediated hypertension secondary to renal artery occlusive disease and abdominal aortic coarctation. J Vasc Surg. 2020 Apr 8;. doi: 10.1016/j.jvs.2020.02.045. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32276020
  29. Sun P, Jia J, Fan F, Zhao J, Huo Y, Ganesh SK*, Zhang Y*. Hemoglobin and erythrocyte count are independently and positively associated with arterial stiffness in a community-based study. J Hum Hypertens. 2020 Apr 7;. doi: 10.1038/s41371-020-0332-6. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 32265488
  30. Kowalski MH, Qian H, Hou Z, Rosen JD, Tapia AL, Shan Y, Jain D, Argos M, Arnett DK, Avery C, Barnes KC, Becker LC, Bien SA, Bis JC, Blangero J, Boerwinkle E, Bowden DW, Buyske S, Cai J, Cho MH, Choi SH, Choquet H, Cupples LA, Cushman M, Daya M, de Vries PS, Ellinor PT, Faraday N, Fornage M, Gabriel S, Ganesh SK, Graff M, Gupta N, He J, Heckbert SR, Hidalgo B, Hodonsky CJ, Irvin MR, Johnson AD, Jorgenson E, Kaplan R, Kardia SLR, Kelly TN, Kooperberg C, Lasky-Su JA, Loos RJF, Lubitz SA, Mathias RA, McHugh CP, Montgomery C, Moon JY, Morrison AC, Palmer ND, Pankratz N, Papanicolaou GJ, Peralta JM, Peyser PA, Rich SS, Rotter JI, Silverman EK, Smith JA, Smith NL, Taylor KD, Thornton TA, Tiwari HK, Tracy RP, Wang T, Weiss ST, Weng LC, Wiggins KL, Wilson JG, Yanek LR, Zöllner S, North KE, Auer PL, Raffield LM, Reiner AP, Li Y. Use of >100,000 NHLBI Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Consortium whole genome sequences improves imputation quality and detection of rare variant associations in admixed African and Hispanic/Latino populations. PLoS Genet. 2019 Dec;15(12):e1008500. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1008500. eCollection 2019 Dec. PubMed PMID: 31869403; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6953885
  31. Cleuren ACA, van der Ent MA, Jiang H, Hunker KL, Yee A, Siemieniak DR, Molema G, Aird WC, Ganesh SK, Ginsburg D. The in vivo endothelial cell translatome is highly heterogeneous across vascular beds. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 Nov 19;116(47):23618-23624. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1912409116. Epub 2019 Nov 11. PubMed PMID: 31712416; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6876253
  32. Hill HL, Stanley JC, Matusko N, Ganesh SK, Coleman DM. The Association of Intracranial Aneurysms in Women with Renal Artery Aneurysms. Ann Vasc Surg. 2019 Oct;60:147-155.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.avsg.2019.03.030. Epub 2019 Jun 12. PubMed PMID: 31200039
  33. Wolford BN, Hornsby WE, Guo D, Zhou W, Lin M, Farhat L, McNamara J, Driscoll A, Wu X, Schmidt EM, Norton EL, Mathis MR, Ganesh SK, Douville NJ, Brummett CM, Kitzman J, Chen YE, Kim K, Deeb GM, Patel H, Eagle KA, Milewicz DM, J Willer C, Yang B. Clinical Implications of Identifying Pathogenic Variants in Individuals With Thoracic Aortic Dissection. Circ Genom Precis Med. 2019 Jun;12(6):e002476. doi: 10.1161/CIRCGEN.118.002476. Epub 2019 Jun 18. PubMed PMID: 31211624; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6582991
  34. Saw J, Starovoytov A, Humphries K, Sheth T, So D, Minhas K, Brass N, Lavoie A, Bishop H, Lavi S, Pearce C, Renner S, Madan M, Welsh RC, Lutchmedial S, Vijayaraghavan R, Aymong E, Har B, Ibrahim R, Gornik HL, Ganesh S, Buller C, Matteau A, Martucci G, Ko D, Mancini GBJ. Canadian spontaneous coronary artery dissection cohort study: in-hospital and 30-day outcomes. Eur Heart J. 2019 Apr 14;40(15):1188-1197. doi: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehz007. PubMed PMID: 30698711; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6462308
  35. Gornik HL, Persu A, Adlam D, Aparicio LS, Azizi M, Boulanger M, Bruno RM, de Leeuw P, Fendrikova-Mahlay N, Froehlich J, Ganesh SK, Gray BH, Jamison C, Januszewicz A, Jeunemaitre X, Kadian-Dodov D, Kim ES, Kovacic JC, Mace P, Morganti A, Sharma A, Southerland AM, Touzé E, van der Niepen P, Wang J, Weinberg I, Wilson S, Olin JW, Plouin PF. First International Consensus on the diagnosis and management of fibromuscular dysplasia. Vasc Med. 2019 Apr;24(2):164-189. doi: 10.1177/1358863X18821816. Epub 2019 Jan 16. Review. PubMed PMID: 30648921
  36. Gornik HL, Persu A, Adlam D, Aparicio LS, Azizi M, Boulanger M, Bruno RM, De Leeuw P, Fendrikova-Mahlay N, Froehlich J, Ganesh SK, Gray BH, Jamison C, Januszewicz A, Jeunemaitre X, Kadian-Dodov D, Kim ESH, Kovacic JC, Mace P, Morganti A, Sharma A, Southerland AM, Touzé E, Van der Niepen P, Wang J, Weinberg I, Wilson S, Olin JW, Plouin PF. First international consensus on the diagnosis and management of fibromuscular dysplasia. J Hypertens. 2019 Feb;37(2):229-252. doi: 10.1097/HJH.0000000000002019. PubMed PMID: 30640867
  37. Jo Hodonsky C, Schurmann C, Schick UM, Kocarnik J, Tao R, van Rooij FJ, Wassel C, Buyske S, Fornage M, Hindorff LA, Floyd JS, Ganesh SK, Lin DY, North KE, Reiner AP, Loos RJ, Kooperberg C, Avery CL. Generalization and fine mapping of red blood cell trait genetic associations to multi-ethnic populations: The PAGE Study. Am J Hematol. 2018 Jun 15;. doi: 10.1002/ajh.25161. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 29905378; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC6300146
  38. Hayes SN, Kim ESH, Saw J, Adlam D, Arslanian-Engoren C, Economy KE, Ganesh SK, Gulati R, Lindsay ME, Mieres JH, Naderi S, Shah S, Thaler DE, Tweet MS, Wood MJ. Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection: Current State of the Science: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association. Circulation. 2018 May 8;137(19):e523-e557. doi: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000564. Epub 2018 Feb 22. Review. PubMed PMID: 29472380; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5957087
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