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SUBMITTER: Niu F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6181616 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Niu Fanglin F Wei Boping B Yan Mengdan M Li Jing J Ouyang Yongri Y Jin Tianbo T
Medicine 20180901 39
Ischemic stroke is a complex vascular disease, which has become 1 of the major causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. More and more data showed that matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), in particular, MMP-2 are deleterious after ischaemic stroke. This study investigated the relationship between MMP-2 and stroke risk in the Southern Chinese population.We evaluated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) of MMP-2 in stroke patients in an association study using a case-control design. Six SNPs of ...[more]