APOE ε variants increase risk of warfarin-related intracerebral hemorrhage

Guido J Falcone1, Farid Radmanesh1, H Bart Brouwers1

  • 1From the Center for Human Genetic Research (G.J.F., F.R., H.B.B., T.W.K.B., W.J.D., V.V., M.R.R., L.P.C., A.M.A., K.S., A.V., S.M.G., A.B., J.R., C.D.A.), J. Philip Kistler Stroke Research Center (G.J.F., F.R., H.B.B., T.W.K.B., W.J.D., V.V., M.R.R., A.B., J.R., C.D.A.), Division of Neurocritical Care and Emergency Neurology, Department of Neurology (G.J.F., F.R., H.B.B., T.W.K.B., W.J.D., M.R.R., A.B., J.R., C.D.A.), and Department of Emergency Medicine (J.N.G.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Program in Medical and Population Genetics (G.J.F., F.R., H.B.B., T.W.K.B., W.J.D., M.R.R., A.B., J.R., C.D.A.), Broad Institute, Cambridge, MA; Department of Epidemiology (G.J.F., P.K.), Harvard School of Public Health, Boston; Department of Neurology (M.S.), Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA; Department of Neurology (J.F.M.), Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL; Stroke Program (D.L.B.), Department of Neurology, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor; Departments of Neurology and Public Health Sciences (B.B.W.), University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville; Department of Neurology (S.L.S.), University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville; Stroke Center (D.L.T.), Harborview Medical Center, University of Washington, Seattle; and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine (M.L.F., S.R.M., R.D., D.W.), OH.

Neurology
|August 24, 2014
PubMed
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