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Angiopoietin-2 promoter haplotypes confer an increased risk of stroke in a Chinese Han population.
Clinical science (London, England : 1979) - 14 Sept 2009
Chen Jingzhou, Yu Hui, Song Weihua, Sun Kai, Song Yan, Lou Kejia, Yang Tao, Zhang Yinhui, Hui Rutai
Abstract excerpt
Angiopoietin-2 is an important mediator of angiogenesis, and we hypothesized that genetic variants of ANGPT2 (the gene encoding angiopoietin-2) would result in abnormal angiogenesis and contribute to stroke susceptibility. To test our hypothesis, we investigated the association of variants in the promoter of ANGPT2 with stroke in a multi-centre case-control study. We found that the C allele of rs3739390 conferred...
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