Genomic data are increasingly being integrated into health care. We propose an outline for structured training in cardiovascular genomics, recognizing the growing need for a cardiovascular genomics subspecialty and cardiovascular subspecialists who incorporate genomics advances to optimize the management of heritable cardiovascular diseases.
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M.S.S. acknowledges the Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship programme at the University of Kansas Medical Center for fostering a research environment for fellows in training. M.J.A. is supported in part by the Mayo Clinic Windland Smith Rice Comprehensive Sudden Cardiac Death Program. I.J.K. is funded by a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute training and mentorship grant (K24-HL70710) and by a National Human Genome Research Institute grant (HG006379).
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Safarova, M.S., Ackerman, M.J. & Kullo, I.J. A call for training programmes in cardiovascular genomics. Nat Rev Cardiol 18, 539–540 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-021-00586-5
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