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Association of estrogen receptor-alpha gene polymorphisms with stroke risk in patients with metabolic syndrome.
Acta neurologica Scandinavica - 1 Mar 2008
Lazaros L, Markoula S, Xita N, Giannopoulos S, Gogou P, Lagos G, Kyritsis A P, Georgiou I
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The vascular protective effects of estrogens are mediated by their binding to the two known estrogen receptors. In this study, we examine the association of stroke with two common polymorphisms of the ESR1 gene in patients with metabolic syndrome. MATERIALS AND METHODS: DNA from 130 patients hospitalized for ischemic stroke and 240 healthy controls were genotyped for ESR1 PvuII and XbaI polymorphisms....
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