The Role of FER rs4957796 in the Risk of Developing and Dying from a Bloodstream Infection: A 23-Year Follow-up of the Population-based Nord-Trøndelag Health Study.

Tormod RogneJan Kristian DamåsHelene Marie FlatbyBjørn Olav ÅsvoldAndrew Thomas DeWanErik Solligård

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2021)

The rs4957796 CC genotype was associated with an increased risk of contracting a bloodstream infection but with a reduced risk of dying from one. The latter finding is in line with studies of sepsis case fatality, while the former expands our understanding of the immunoregulatory role of this polymorphism.

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