No evidence for an association between the rs2824292 variant at chromosome 21q21 and ventricular fibrillation during acute myocardial infarction in a German population

Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1237-1239

  Bugert, Peter ^a   Elmas, Elif ^b   Stach, Ksenija ^b   Weiss, Christel ^b   Kälsch, Thorsten ^b   Dobrev, Dobromir ^b   Borggrefe, Martin ^b  

^a Institute of Transfusion Medicine and Immunology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

single nucleotide polymorphisms; sudden cardiac death; ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 21Q; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPLICATION STUDY; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 21; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GERMANY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 79960259208     PISSN: 14346621     EISSN: 14374331     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/CCLM.2011.190     Document Type: Article

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