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Association of ABO histo-blood group B allele with myocardial infarction.
European journal of immunogenetics : official journal of the British Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics - 1 Jun 2003
Nydegger U E, Wuillemin W A, Julmy F, Meyer B J, Carrel T P
Abstract excerpt
To investigate a possible association of ABO blood group alleles with myocardial infarction, a case-control study comprising 177 patients (median age 57.0 years; range 32-72 years) and 89 controls was performed. The distributions of the ABO blood-genotype O1, O2, A1, A2 and B alleles were assessed by analysis of genomic DNA, using the sequence-specific primer-polymerase chain reaction (PCR-SSP) technique to...
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