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Sequence variant on 9p21 is associated with the presence of abdominal aortic aneurysm disease but does not have an impact on aneurysmal expansion.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Mar 2009
Thompson Andrew R, Golledge Jonathan, Cooper Jackie A, Hafez Hany, Norman Paul E, Humphries Steve E
Abstract excerpt
Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is among a number of vascular disorders to be recently associated with a common allelic variant situated on chromosome 9p21. To further assess the significance of this region of the genome in AAA development, we genotyped the sequence variation tagged by rs10757278 in two geographically independent cohorts of patients and compared them to matched controls. We also assessed the...
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