The final model produced by the GP model included 6 predictors: age (AGEn), sumscore of previous atherosclerosis (HISTCAR2n), gender (SEXfemale.n), IMT (IMTn), homocysteine (HOMOCn), and albumin (ALBUMINNo.n), in addition to the discrete time indicator (tj), which was present in all GP models to represent the j-th time interval. This evidence concerns the gene ALB and atherosclerosis.