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Announcing the Cardiovascular Disease Knowledge Portal

We are pleased to announce the launch of the Cardiovascular Disease Knowledge Portal (CVDKP). Our collaboration with Dr. Patrick Ellinor, Dr. Sek Kathiresan, and their colleagues in the Atrial Fibrillation , Global Lipids Genetics , Myocardial Infarction Genetics , and CARDIoGRAMPlusC4D consortia has created a resource that offers world-wide open access to genetic and genomic information about atrial fibrillation, myocardial infarction, and related traits, with the goal of democratizing access to genomic data and accelerating cardiovascular genomics research.
 The CVDKP is constructed on a software architecture originally developed for the Type 2 Diabetes Knowledge Portal (T2DKP), which is the central product of the Accelerating Medicines Partnership in Type 2 Diabetes (AMP T2D). AMP T2D is a public-private partnership between the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, biopharmaceutical companies, and non-profit organizations that is managed through t