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Cytokine gene variants and venous thrombotic risk in the BRATROS (BRAZILIAN THROMBOSIS STUDY).
Thrombosis research - 1 Jan 2007
Pieroni Fabiano, Lourenço Dayse M, Morelli Vânia M, Maffei Francisco H, Zago Marco A, Franco Rendrik F
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INTRODUCTION: Venous thrombosis (VT) and inflammation are two closely related entities. In the present investigation we assessed whether there is a relation between genetic modifiers of the inflammatory response and the risk of VT. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 420 consecutive and unrelated patients with an objective diagnosis of deep VT and 420 matched controls were investigated. The frequencies of the following gene...
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