Genetic tests and their evaluation: Can we answer the key questions?
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[Can we expect polymorphisms to answer our questions?].
We have read with great interest the article by Rodríguez Rodrigo et al1 describing the dramatic case of a patient whose only risk factor was moderately elevated homocysteine values associated with heterozygosis of the 5,10-methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene, in the course of a hypercoagulable situation as is the puerperium. An association between high concentrations of homocysteine and i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Genetics in Medicine
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1098-3600,1530-0366
DOI: 10.1097/01.gim.0000144060.84960.36