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Association between haptoglobin gene variants and diabetic nephropathy: haptoglobin polymorphism in nephropathy susceptibility.
Nephron. Experimental nephrology - 1 Jan 2007
Conway Bryan R, Savage David A, Brady Hugh R, Maxwell Alexander P
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The Hp(1)/Hp(2) DNA polymorphism has previously been implicated in susceptibility to diabetic nephropathy in some but not all studies. In an attempt to clarify these conflicting findings, we conducted a case-control association study in a Caucasian population. METHODS: We recruited 224 and 285 type 1 diabetic patients with (cases) and without (controls) nephropathy, respectively, from 2 centres...
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