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Genetic variation on chromosome 16 is associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Clinical science (London, England : 1979) - 1 Jan 1990
Powell J T, Bashir A, Dawson S, Vine N, Henney A M, Humphries S E, Greenhalgh R M
Abstract excerpt
1. There is a familial tendency to abdominal aortic aneurysms. We have followed up a previous report of a weak association between the haptoglobin 2-1 phenotype and aortic aneurysm and investigated polymorphisms of the haptoglobin gene and neighbouring cholesterol ester transfer protein gene on the long arm of chromosome 16 in patients with atherosclerotic abdominal aortic aneurysm, patients with stenosing aortic...
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