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Disease Markers
Volume 35 (2013), Issue 6, Pages 863–868
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/215407
Research Article

Positive Association between GCKR rs780093 Polymorphism and Coronary Heart Disease in the Aged Han Chinese

Jiangfang Lian,1 Jian Guo,1,2 Zhikui Chen,1 Qingjun Jiang,1 Huadan Ye,2 Xiaoyan Huang,2 Xi Yang,1 Yanna Ba,1,2 Jianqing Zhou,1 and Shiwei Duan2

1Ningbo Medical Center, Lihuili Hospital, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315041, China
2Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Pathophysiology, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China

Received 22 September 2013; Revised 31 October 2013; Accepted 31 October 2013

Academic Editor: Stamatios Theocharis

Copyright © 2013 Jiangfang Lian et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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