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Polymorphism of the heme oxygenase-1 gene and cerebral aneurysms.
British journal of neurosurgery - 1 Aug 2005
Morgan L, Hawe E, Palmen J, Montgomery H, Humphries S E, Kitchen N
Abstract excerpt
Inflammation is thought to play an important role in intracranial aneurysm formation. Heme-oxygenase-1(HO-1) is a novel anti-inflammatory factor. A length polymorphic variant of the HO-1 gene promoter region, comprising (GT)n dinucleotide repeats, is associated with altered levels of gene transcription: long (= 36 GT) repeats are associated with decreased HO-1. We hypothesized that patients with aneurysmal...
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