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A polymorphism associated with increased levels of YKL-40 and the risk of early onset of lone atrial fibrillation.
Journal of negative results in biomedicine - 2 Jan 2013
Henningsen Kristoffer M A, Olesen Morten S, Sajadieh Golnaz, Haunsoe Stig, Svendsen Jesper H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Plasma levels of YKL-40 are elevated in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). We hypothesized that a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) that affects YKL-40 plasma levels is associated to the risk of lone AF. FINDINGS: We included 178 young patients with lone AF and the first episode before the age of 40 years, and a control group of 875 healthy individuals. We analyzed a promoter SNP (-131CG)...
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