Current knowledge on the genetics of incident venous thrombosis.

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The genetic burden underlying venous thrombosis (VT) is characterized by a sibling relative risk of 2.5 and a strong heritability whose estimates varied from 35% to 60% according to different studies. However, the genetic factors identified so far only explain about 5% of VT heritability and just 16 genes have been robustly associated with the susceptibility to VT, most of them affecting the coagulation cascade....

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