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Role of Haptoglobin 2-2 genotype on disease progression and mortality among South Indian Chronic Kidney Disease Patients
2022-11-08
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<h4>Background: </h4> Haptoglobin (HP), a plasma glycoprotein, binds to free hemoglobin and prevents the loss of iron and kidney damage. Polymorphism in the HP gene affects its enzyme activity, and different genotypes result in varied antioxidant, angiogenic and anti-inflammatory properties. From this background the present work is focused to conduct a prospective case-control study in South Indian population and...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 740be799-eae9-59a3-8bb6-8758aa1c44af
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2221770/v1
