[ The results indicate that a higher percentage of chronic periodontitis patients exhibit genotypes associated with higher plasma fibrinogen levels than healthy individuals. Furthermore, periodontitis patients have significantly higher fibrinogen levels compared to healthy individuals. The presence of H1H2 or H2H2 genotypes as well as elevated fibrinogen levels, in conjunction with other factors, may put individuals at higher risk of having periodontal disease, or may result from periodontal infection-genetic interactions.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE