No clear link between VKORC1 genetic polymorphism and the risk of venous thrombosis or peripheral arterial disease

Thrombosis and Haemostasis

Volumn 99, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 970-972

  Smadja, David M ^a,b,c   Loriot, Marie Anne ^a,b,c   Hindorff, Lucia A ^d   Mellottee, Lucille ^a,c   Gaussem, Pascale ^a,b,c   Emmerich, Joseph ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b HÔPITAL EUROPÉEN GEORGES POMPIDOU   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACENOCOUMAROL;

ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LETTER; MUTATOR GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RISK ASSESSMENT; VEIN THROMBOSIS; VKORC1 GENE;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MIXED FUNCTION OXYGENASES; ODDS RATIO; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WARFARIN;

EID: 43949130414     PISSN: 03406245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1160/TH07-12-0742     Document Type: Letter

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