Open AccessFBN1 polymorphisms in patients with the dilatative pathology of the ascending thoracic aorta
Author(s) -
Vaiva Lesauskaitė,
Ramunė Šepetienė,
Giedrė Jarienė,
Vaiva Patamsytė,
Giedrius Žukovas,
Ingrida Grabauskytė,
Zita Stanionienė,
Raimondas Širmenis,
Rimantas Benetis
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1873-734X
pISSN - 1010-7940
DOI - 10.1093/ejcts/ezu520
Subject(s) - ascending aorta , single nucleotide polymorphism , odds ratio , medicine , aneurysm , aortic aneurysm , thoracic aortic aneurysm , minor allele frequency , aortic dissection , cardiology , genotype , aorta , surgery , genetics , biology , gene
To investigate polymorphisms of the fibrillin-1 (FBN1) gene (namely, rs2118181, rs1036477, rs10519177, rs755251 and rs4774517) in a case-control study for dilatative pathology of the ascending thoracic aorta (DPATA) from Lithuanians.
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