Article
ABO blood groups and genetic risk factors for thrombosis in Croatian population.
Croatian medical journal - 1 Dec 2009
Jukic Irena, Bingulac-Popovic Jasna, Dogic Vesna, Babic Ivana, Culej Jelena, Tomicic Maja, Vuk Tomislav, Sarlija Dorotea, Balija Melita
Abstract excerpt
AIM: To assess the association between ABO blood group genotypes and genetic risk factors for thrombosis (FV Leiden, prothrombin G20210A, and methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase C677T mutations) in the Croatian population and to determine whether genetic predisposition to thrombotic risk is higher in non-OO blood group genotypes than in OO blood group genotypes. METHODS: The study included 154 patients with...
Topics
- ABO Blood-Group System
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alleles
- Confidence Intervals
- Croatia
- Factor V
- Female
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male