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Diabetes Heart Study

African American Diabetes Heart Study (AA-DHS) objectives are to improve understanding of ethnic differences in coronary artery calcification (CAC) and carotid plaque (CP) in populations of African and European ancestry. The AA-DHS consists of self-reported African Americans with T2D recruited from two Wake Forest School of Medicine (WFSM) studies: the family-based Diabetes Heart Study (DHS) and unrelated individuals in the AA-DHS. DHS is a cross-sectional study of European American and African American families with siblings concordant for T2D. AA-DHS started after DHS and enrolled unrelated African Americans. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants and all study protocols were approved by the WFSM institutional review board.
Short Name
DHS
Institution(s)
Wake Forest Baptist Health
Type of Omics
WGS
Starting Phase
Phase 2
TOPMed Accession #
phs001412
Omics Center(s) Phase 2
Broad Institute Genomics Platform
Phases Involved
2
PI
Co-PI
NIH Program Officer
Phenotype Liaison
Data Set contact(s)
COL Contact(s)
Project
AA_CAC
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