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SUBMITTER: Luke MM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2818395 | biostudies-literature | 2009
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Luke May M MM Lalouschek Wolfgang W Rowland Charles M CM Catanese Joseph J JJ Bolonick Joel I JI Bui Nam D ND Greisenegger Stefan S Endler Georg G Devlin James J JJ Mannhalter Christine C
Cerebrovascular diseases (Basel, Switzerland) 20090912 5
Noncardioembolic stroke and coronary heart disease (CHD) may share genetic predispositions. We tested the hypothesis that genetic variants which are associated with risk of CHD would also be associated with risk of noncardioembolic stroke in 562 cases from the Vienna Stroke Registry and 815 controls. We selected 6 gene variants that had been consistently associated with risk of CHD in 3 studies, including the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, and found that 4 of these gene variants were ...[more]