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Replication studies for the association of PSMA6 polymorphism with coronary artery disease in East Asian populations.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Apr 2009
Hinohara Kunihiko, Nakajima Toshiaki, Sasaoka Taishi, Sawabe Motoji, Lee Bok-Soo, Ban Jimin, Park Jeong-Euy, Izumi Toru, Kimura Akinori
Abstract excerpt
Coronary artery disease (CAD) has become a major health problem in many countries because of its increasing prevalence and high mortality. Recently, an association of a functional sequence variation, -8C>G, in the human proteasome subunit alpha type 6 gene (PSMA6) with the susceptibility to CAD was reported. To validate the association, we investigated a total of 1330 cases and 2554 controls from Japanese and...
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