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Genetic risk factors in inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysms: polymorphic residue 70 in the HLA-DR B1 gene as a key genetic element.
Journal of vascular surgery - 1 Feb 1997
Rasmussen T E, Hallett J W, Metzger R L, Richardson D M, Harmsen W S, Goronzy J J, Weyand C M
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PURPOSE: Evidence of a genetic predisposition to the development of inflammatory abdominal aortic aneurysms (AAAs) exists as a positive family history in 17% of patients. Familial clustering and other similarities between inflammatory AAAs and giant cell arteritis (GCA), which possesses a genetic...
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