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Inherited risk factors for venous thromboembolism.
Nature reviews. Cardiology - 1 Mar 2014
Martinelli Ida, De Stefano Valerio, Mannucci Pier M
Abstract excerpt
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) has important heritable components. In the past 20 years, knowledge in this field has greatly increased with the identification of a number of gene variants causing hypercoagulability. The two main mechanisms are loss-of-function of anticoagulant proteins and gain-of-function of procoagulants, the latter owing to increased synthesis or impaired downregulation of a normal protein or,...
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