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Higher incidence of death in multi-vessel coronary artery disease patients associated with polymorphisms in chromosome 9p21.
BMC cardiovascular disorders - 2 Aug 2012
Gioli-Pereira Luciana, Santos Paulo Caleb Junior Lima, Ferreira Noely Evangelista, Hueb Whady Armindo, Krieger Jose Eduardo, Pereira Alexandre Costa
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BACKGROUND: We investigated whether 9p21 polymorphisms are associated with cardiovascular events in a group of 611 patients enrolled in the Medical, Angioplasty or Surgery Study II (MASS II), a randomized trial comparing treatments for patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and preserved left ventricular function. METHODS: The participants of the MASS II were genotyped for 9p21 polymorphisms (rs10757274,...
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