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Association of ApoE genetic variants with obstructive sleep apnea in children.
Sleep medicine - 1 Mar 2008
Kalra Maninder, Pal Prodipto, Kaushal Ritesh, Amin Raouf S, Dolan Lawrence M, Fitz Kelly, Kumar Sunil, Sheng Xiaohua, Guha Saurav, Mallik Joydeep, Deka Ranjan, Chakraborty Ranajit
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Although several studies have reported an association between obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and the chromosomal region containing the Apolipoprotein E (ApoE) gene, findings about the exact location in the ApoE gene have been inconsistent. The objective of our study was thus to determine the allele, genotype, and haplotype frequencies at several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the...
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