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Genetics of ischaemic stroke among persons of non-European descent: a meta-analysis of eight genes involving approximately 32,500 individuals.
PLoS medicine - 1 Apr 2007
Ariyaratnam Roshan, Casas Juan P, Whittaker John, Smeeth Liam, Hingorani Aroon D, Sharma Pankaj
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Ischaemic stroke in persons of European descent has a genetic basis, but whether the stroke-susceptibility alleles, the strength of any association, and the extent of their attributable risks are the same in persons of non-European descent remains unanswered. Whether ethnicity itself has a relevant or substantial contribution on those effect estimates is controversial. Comparative analyses between the...
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