Abstract
BAK1 gene variation and abdominal aortic aneurysms-results may have been prematurely overrated
Highlights
CHU de Nantes, pole de Biologie, service de Genetique Medicale, Nantes, cedex 1, France Communicated by Garry R
We thought that it was quite an original idea to simultaneously compare the genotypes of the BAK1 gene between abdominal aortic tissue, matched nondiseased tissue, and blood leukocytes
We did not understand why the authors had not compared the same type of nucleic acid between blood (DNA) and matching aortic tissues (RNA)
Summary
CHU de Nantes, pole de Biologie, service de Genetique Medicale, Nantes, cedex 1, France Communicated by Garry R. In their reply to Dr Hatchwell, the authors state that ‘‘blood and tissue BAK1 genomic sequences were identical’’ [Gottlieb et al, 2010].
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