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SUBMITTER: Veiner HL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4331216 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Veiner Hilla-Lee HL Gorbatov Rostic R Vardi Moshe M Doros Gheorghe G Miller-Lotan Rachel R Zohar Yaniv Y Sabo Edmond E Asleh Rabea R Levy Nina S NS Goldfarb Levi J LJ Berk Thomas A TA Haas Tali T Shalom Hadar H Suss-Toby Edith E Kam Adi A Kaplan Marielle M Tamir Ronit R Ziskind Anna A Levy Andrew P AP
Atherosclerosis 20150114 1
<h4>Objective</h4>Homozygosity for a 1.7 kb intragenic duplication of the Haptoglobin (Hp) gene (Hp 2-2 genotype), present in 36% of the population, has been associated with a 2-3 fold increased incidence of atherothrombosis in individuals with Diabetes (DM) in 10 longitudinal studies compared to DM individuals not homozygous for this duplication (Hp 1-1/2-1). The increased CVD risk associated with the Hp 2-2 genotype has been shown to be prevented with vitamin E supplementation in man. We sough ...[more]