Common variant found in populations of African descent linked with increased risk of venous thromboembolism
Roxana Daneshjou, along with co-authors Teri Klein and Russ Altman of PharmGKB, have published a paper describing a previously uncharacterized SNP in the Protein S (PROS1) gene that increases risk of venous thromboembolism (VTE). VTE is more common in African American populations than in populations of European descent, yet the