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Genetic Risk Factors in Venous Thromboembolism.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology - 1 Jan 2017
Hotoleanu Cristina
Abstract excerpt
Genetic risk factors predispose to thrombophilia and play the most important etiopathogenic role in venous thromboembolism (VTE) in people younger than 50 years old. At least one inherited risk factor could be found in about half of the cases with a first episode of idiopathic VTE.Roughly, genetic risk factors are classified into two main categories: loss of function mutations (such as deficiencies of...
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