Genetic variation of the androgen receptor and risk of myocardial infarction and ischemic stroke in women

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1590-1592

  Rexrode, Kathryn M ^a,b   Ridker, Paul M ^a,b   Hegener, Hillary H ^a,b   Buring, Julie E ^a,c,d   Manson, Joann E ^a,c   Zee, Robert Y L ^a,b  

^a Division of Preventive Medicine   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Androgens; Cardiac emboli; Cerebral infarct; Genetics; Women minorities

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; CYSTEINE; GUANINE; MICROSATELLITE DNA; ANDROGEN;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; AGED; AGING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETICS; LETTER; MENOPAUSE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

AGED; AGING; ANDROGENS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 44449125263     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.508218     Document Type: Article

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