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Inflammation as a risk factor for myocardial infarction.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2006
Tanaka Toshihiro, Ozaki Kouichi
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Myocardial infarction (MI) is one of the common diseases whose pathogenesis includes genetic factors. To reveal genetic backgrounds of this clinically heterogeneous disorder, we started our case-control association study by examining large-scale gene-based single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sets for approximately 1,000 patients and controls. As a core genotyping method, a combination of multiplex PCR and...
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