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Figure 1 Strategy used to recruit premature coronary artery disease (P-CAD)–affected sibling pairs and to identify patients with sporadic P-CAD. A total of 110 patients with familial P-CAD were originally identified, but 7 refused to enter the study, so that 103 probands with familial P-CAD and 110 affected siblings were eventually recruited.