In addition to diabetes, analyses in UK Biobank (UKB) of a functional variant of PCSK9 (rs11591147) suggested possible excess risks of several non-vascular disease outcomes, including asthma and respiratory tract infections 22 , 25 , although these associations were only nominally significant and require replication.
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PCSK9 genetic variants and risk of vascular and non-vascular diseases in Chinese and UK populations.
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