Open AccessFamilial Transmission of Venous Thromboembolism
Author(s) -
Bengt Zöller,
Xinjun Li,
Jan Sundquist,
Kristina Sundquist
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
circulation cardiovascular genetics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1942-325X
pISSN - 1942-3268
DOI - 10.1161/circgenetics.113.000341
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , venous thromboembolism , confidence interval , offspring , pediatrics , demography , thrombosis , pregnancy , genetics , biology , physics , sociology , optics
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) clusters in families, but the familial risk of VTE has not been determined among adoptees. The aim was to disentangle the contributions of genetic and environmental factors to the familial transmission of VTE.
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