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Association analysis of common variants of ELN, NOS2A, APOE and ACE2 to intracranial aneurysm.
Stroke - 1 May 2006
Mineharu Youhei, Inoue Kayoko, Inoue Sumiko, Yamada Shigeki, Nozaki Kazuhiko, Takenaka Katsunobu, Hashimoto Nobuo, Koizumi Akio
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Previous studies have shown positive evidence of linkage of the intracranial aneurysm (IA) at chromosome 7q11, 17cen, 19q13, and Xp22. These regions contain elastin (ELN), nitric oxide synthetase 2A (NOS2A), apolipoprotein E (APOE), and angiotensin-I converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), which are considered to be promising candidate genes for IA. We aimed to examine the association of...
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