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Determinants of plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in South Asians with ischaemic stroke.
Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland) - 1 Jan 2002
Kain Kirti, Young John, Bamford John, Bavington John, Grant Peter J, Catto Andrew J
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the relationship of circulating plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) levels with features of insulin resistance and genotype at a single nucleotide insertion/deletion (4G/5G) polymorphism in the promoter region of the PAI-1 gene in 101 South Asian ischaemic stroke patients and 102 symptom-free reference subjects. The allele frequencies were 4G-0.51, 5G-0.49 and 4G-0.61, 5G-0.39 in patients and...
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