Predictive genetic variants for venous thrombosis: what's new?

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Various pathways lead to the development of venous thrombosis. Risk factors are common and can be genetic or acquired. Since the identification of factor V Leiden and prothrombin 20210 G-->A, the field of genetic epidemiology has developed rapidly and many new genetic variants have been described in the past decade. However, the association with venous thrombosis is often unclear and conflicting results have been...

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