Prevalence of FXIII V34L in Populations with Different Cardiovascular Risk
Prevalence of FXIII V34L in Populations with Different Cardiovascular Risk
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不同心血管风险人群中 FXIII V34L 的患病率
DOI:
10.1055/s-0037-1615243
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发表时间:
1998
影响因子:
6.7
通讯作者:
P. Grant
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作者:
L. Mccormack;K. Kain;A. Catto;H. Kohler;M. Stickland;P. Grant
in the European founding population and was subsequently propagated in Western Europe by the Neolithic farmers migrating from the Middle East (5). We found the prevalence of the 20210 GÕA mutation in the prothrombin gene in Navarra to be higher than that observed for the factor V Leiden. Thirteen out of 304 healthy subjects were shown to carry this genetic variant, all of them in the heterozygous form, which gives a prevalence of 4.28% with an allele frequency of 2.14% (95% CI: 1.14-3.63%). Although much fewer reports on the world distribution of this mutation are currently available when compared with published data for factor V Leiden, we are presenting the highest prevalence described so far in a healthy population, provided that prevalences range between 0 and 3.2% in studies performed with European and Brazilian populations (2, 7-13). The unquestionable presence of the 20210 GÕA variant in the prothrombin gene within the Basque population, taken together with its relative frequency (2% prevalence) among Brazilians of African descent (8) would support the hypothesis proposed by Arruda et al. about a more uniform world distribution of nt20210A when compared with the FVRQ mutation, which is not restricted to Caucasian populations, implying that the prothrombin variant would have originated historically before factor V Leiden (8). Finally, the ancient origin of nt20210A would also support a positive selection pressure of a slightly hypercoagulable state in humans.