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; Gianni Quacquaruccio; Augusto Di Castelnuovo; Norma Nowak; Joan Dorn; Maria Benedetta Donati; Jo L. Freudenheim; Maurizio Trevisan; Licia Iacoviello

doi:10.1160/TH11-06-0377

Thrombosis and Haemostasis, Table of Contents

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

Authors

Monica de Gaetano^*

¹Laboratory of Genetic and Environmental Epidemiology, Research Laboratories, Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura “Giovanni Paolo II”, Catholic University, Campobasso, Italy

²School of Biomedical and Biomolecular Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin, Ireland
Gianni Quacquaruccio^*

¹Laboratory of Genetic and Environmental Epidemiology, Research Laboratories, Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura “Giovanni Paolo II”, Catholic University, Campobasso, Italy
Augusto Di Castelnuovo

¹Laboratory of Genetic and Environmental Epidemiology, Research Laboratories, Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura “Giovanni Paolo II”, Catholic University, Campobasso, Italy
Norma Nowak

³Microarray and Genomics Facility, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo New York, USA

⁴New York Center of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, University at Buffalo, Buffalo New York, USA
Joan Dorn

⁵Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Buffalo University, Buffalo New York, USA
Maria Benedetta Donati

¹Laboratory of Genetic and Environmental Epidemiology, Research Laboratories, Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura “Giovanni Paolo II”, Catholic University, Campobasso, Italy
Jo L. Freudenheim

⁵Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Buffalo University, Buffalo New York, USA
Maurizio Trevisan

⁶Health Sciences System, Nevada System of Higher Education, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Licia Iacoviello

⁶Health Sciences System, Nevada System of Higher Education, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

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