CRP gene haplotypes, serum CRP, and cerebral small-vessel disease: The Rotterdam Scan Study and the MEMO Study

Stroke

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2356-2359

  Reitz, Christiane ^a,b   Berger, Klaus ^a   De Maat, Moniek P M ^b   Stoll, Monika ^a   Friedrichs, Frauke ^a   Kardys, Isabella ^b   Witteman, Jacqueline C M ^b   Breteler, Monique M B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genetics; Inflammation; Lacunar infarcts; White matter disease

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WHITE MATTER; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN ARTERY; BRAIN ATHEROSCLEROSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; LETTER; METABOLISM; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN INFARCTION; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; COHORT STUDIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MICROCIRCULATION; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 34548221417     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.482661     Document Type: Article

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