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Interleukin-17A gene variants and risk of coronary artery disease: a large angiography-based study.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 30 Jan 2011
Zhang Xiaolin, Pei Fang, Zhang MingXiang, Yan Chenghui, Huang Mingfang, Wang Tao, Han Yaling
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies have also revealed that interleukin (IL)-17A plays a key role in atherosclerosis and its complication, but the relationship of its common variants with coronary artery disease (CAD) has not been extensively studied. We systematically screened sequence variations in the IL17A gene and designed an angiography-based case-controlled study consisting of 1031 CAD patients and 935 control subjects to...
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