Article
Triglyceride level modifying functional variants of GALTN2 and MLXIPL in patients with ischaemic stroke.
European journal of neurology - 1 Aug 2010
Polgár N, Járomi L, Csöngei V, Maász A, Sipeky C, Sáfrány E, Szabó M, Melegh B
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recent genome-wide studies identified several genetic variants associated with blood lipid level alterations. Because affected lipid metabolism can confer risk to the development of ischaemic stroke, we studied three polymorphisms reportedly associated with triglyceride-level changes, rs17145738 and rs3812316 of the MLXIPL locus, and rs4846914 variant of GALNT2 gene in biobanked samples of patients...
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