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Association of PECAM-1 Gene Polymorphisms with Kawasaki Disease in Chinese Children.
Disease markers - 1 Jan 2017
Li Zhuoying, Han Dong, Jiang Jie, Chen Jia, Tian Lang, Yang Zuocheng
Abstract excerpt
Kawasaki disease (KD) is an acute systemic vasculitis complicated by development of coronary artery lesions. PECAM-1 is a kind of cell adhesion molecule, which plays an important role in coronary artery disease. The relationship between PECAM-1 gene polymorphisms and their susceptibility to Kawasaki diseases (KD) is still unclear. In our study, we examined the PECAM-1 gene polymorphisms in 44 KD patients and 59...
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