Published: 7 April 2017
Author(s): Domenico Girelli, Chiara Piubelli, Nicola Martinelli, Roberto Corrocher, Oliviero Olivieri
Issue: April 2017
Section: Narrative Review

Clinicians are well aware of the importance of a positive family history for coronary artery disease (CAD). Nonetheless, elucidation of the genetic basis of CAD has long proven difficult. The scenario changed in the last decade through the application of modern genomic technologies, like genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and next generation sequencing (NGS). GWAS have discovered over 60 common variants highly associated with CAD. For predictive purposes, such variants have been used to build up Genetic Risk Scores (GRSs), but their incorporation into classical prediction models does not appear substantially outperform the simple addition of family history.

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