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. 2009 Jul 31:2:154.
doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-2-154.

Polymorphism FXII 46C>T and cardiovascular risk: additional data from Spanish and Tunisian patients

Georgios Athanasiadis  1 , Esther Esteban, Magdanela Gayà Vidal, Robert Carreras Torres, Raoudha Bahri, Pedro Moral
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Polymorphism FXII 46C>T and cardiovascular risk: additional data from Spanish and Tunisian patients

Georgios Athanasiadis et al. BMC Res Notes. .

Abstract

Background: Previous studies showed an association between Coagulation Factor XII 46C>T polymorphism and variation in FXII plasma levels, as 46C>T seems to affect the translation efficiency. Case-control studies in Spanish samples indicated that genotype T/T is an independent risk factor for venous thrombosis, ischemic stroke and acute coronary artery disease. In this study, we tried to reaffirm the importance of 46C>T in two samples from Spain and Tunisia.

Findings: A Transmission Disequilibrium Test (TDT) based on 101 family trios from Barcelona with one offspring affected by ischemic heart disease and a classical case-control study based on 76 patients with IHD and 118 healthy individuals from North and Centre-South Tunisia were conducted. Subjects were genotyped for 46C>T and data were analyzed accordingly, revealing no association in any of the two samples (TDT: P = 0.16, relative risk 1.17; case-control study: P = 0.59, odds ratio 1.36).

Conclusion: The results suggest that 46C>T is not a risk factor for ischemic heart disease in any of the two analyzed samples and therefore the polymorphism seems not to be a universal risk factor for cardiovascular diseases.

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