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Iron and hepcidin as risk factors in atherosclerosis: what do the genes say?

BACKGROUND: Previous reports suggested a role for iron and hepcidin in atherosclerosis. Here, we evaluated the causality of these associations from a genetic perspective via (i) a Mendelian randomization (MR) approach, (ii) study of association of atherosclerosis-related single nucleotide polymorphi...

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Autores principales: Galesloot, Tessel E., Janss, Luc L., Burgess, Stephen, Kiemeney, Lambertus A. L. M., den Heijer, Martin, de Graaf, Jacqueline, Holewijn, Suzanne, Benyamin, Beben, Whitfield, John B., Swinkels, Dorine W., Vermeulen, Sita H.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4498499/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26159428
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12863-015-0246-4