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Effects of fractalkine receptor variants on common carotid artery intima-media thickness.
Stroke - 1 Jun 2006
Norata Giuseppe D, Garlaschelli Katia, Ongari Manuele, Raselli Sara, Grigore Liliana, Catapano Alberico L
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Fractalkine receptor (CX3CR1) plays a key role during atherogenesis. CX3CR1 has 2 common coding polymorphisms, namely V249I and T280M, that have been associated with interindividual differences in susceptibility to atherosclerosis. In the present study, we investigated the possible association between CX3CR1variants and intima-media thickness (IMT). METHODS: We genotyped 1256 samples from...
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