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A phenome-wide association study of a lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A(2) loss-of-function variant in 90 000 Chinese adults

Background: Lipoprotein-associated phospholipase A(2) (Lp-PLA(2)) has been implicated in development of atherosclerosis; however, recent randomized trials of Lp-PLA(2) inhibition reported no beneficial effects on vascular diseases. In East Asians, a loss-of-function variant in the PLA2G7 gene can be...

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Autores principales: Millwood, Iona Y, Bennett, Derrick A, Walters, Robin G, Clarke, Robert, Waterworth, Dawn, Johnson, Toby, Chen, Yiping, Yang, Ling, Guo, Yu, Bian, Zheng, Hacker, Alex, Yeo, Astrid, Parish, Sarah, Hill, Michael R, Chissoe, Stephanie, Peto, Richard, Cardon, Lon, Collins, Rory, Li, Liming, Chen, Zhengming
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5100610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27301456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyw087