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Thromb Haemost 2011; 106(06): 1231-1233.
DOI: 10.1160/TH11-06-0377
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Haplotypes and haplotype-pairs of IL-1 beta and IL-6 genes and risk of non fatal myocardial infarction in the Western New York Acute MI Study

Monica de Gaetano   *
1   Laboratory of Genetic and Environmental Epidemiology, Research Laboratories, Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura “Giovanni Paolo II”, Catholic University, Campobasso, Italy
2   School of Biomedical and Biomolecular Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland
,
Gianni Quacquaruccio   *
1   Laboratory of Genetic and Environmental Epidemiology, Research Laboratories, Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura “Giovanni Paolo II”, Catholic University, Campobasso, Italy
,
Augusto Di Castelnuovo
1   Laboratory of Genetic and Environmental Epidemiology, Research Laboratories, Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura “Giovanni Paolo II”, Catholic University, Campobasso, Italy
,
Norma Nowak
3   Microarray and Genomics Facility, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo New York, USA
4   New York Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo New York, USA
,
Joan Dorn
5   Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Buffalo University, Buffalo New York, USA
,
Maria Benedetta Donati
1   Laboratory of Genetic and Environmental Epidemiology, Research Laboratories, Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura “Giovanni Paolo II”, Catholic University, Campobasso, Italy
,
Jo L. Freudenheim
5   Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Buffalo University, Buffalo New York, USA
,
Maurizio Trevisan
6   Health Sciences System, Nevada System of Higher Education, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
,
Licia Iacoviello
6   Health Sciences System, Nevada System of Higher Education, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
› Author Affiliations Financial support: This work was supported by a grant from Telethon, Italy, contract n. E.1005 (L.I.) and a grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (P50-AA09802) (M.T.).
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Received: 03 June 2011

Accepted after minor revision: 09 September 2011

Publication Date:
27 November 2017 (online)

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* Both authors contributed equally to this work.


 

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