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SUBMITTER: Leaf DE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5084897 | biostudies-other | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Leaf David E DE Body Simon C SC Muehlschlegel Jochen D JD McMahon Gearoid M GM Lichtner Peter P Collard Charles D CD Shernan Stanton K SK Fox Amanda A AA Waikar Sushrut S SS
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 20160602 11
Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) catalyzes the degradation of heme, which may be involved in the pathogenesis of AKI. Length polymorphisms in the number of GT dinucleotide repeats in the HO-1 gene (HMOX1) promoter inversely associate with HMOX1 mRNA expression. We analyzed the association between allelic frequencies of GT repeats in the HMOX1 gene promoter and postoperative AKI in 2377 white patients who underwent cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass. We categorized patients as having the short al ...[more]