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Association Between NEDD4L Variation and the Genetic Risk of Acute Appendicitis: A Multi-institutional Genome-Wide Association Study.
JAMA surgery - 1 Oct 2021
Gaitanidis Apostolos, Kaafarani Haytham M A, Christensen Mathias A, Breen Kerry, Mendoza April, Fagenholz Peter J, Velmahos George C, Farhat Maha R
Abstract excerpt
Importance: The familial aspect of acute appendicitis (AA) has been proposed, but its hereditary basis remains undetermined. Objective: To identify genomic variants associated with AA. Design, Setting, and Participants: This genome-wide association study, conducted from June 21, 2019, to February 4, 2020, used a multi-institutional biobank to retrospectively identify patients with AA across 8 single-nucleotide...
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