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Just as the small absolute risks of thrombosis attributable to oral contraceptives and prothrombotic mutations may interact dramatically [5], selective inhibitors of COX-2 may also interact with genetic and environmental factors that predispose to the risk of thrombosis.
None of these sequences are known to predispose to genomic rearrangements, although short stretches of identical sequence are often found at the sites of germline translocation and deletion breakpoints [ 20 21 22 ] . Genomic analysis of the parents and siblings of Case 2 indicated that the mutation was sporadic.
Although the majority of patients undergoing total hip and knee arthroplasty are subjected to similar perioperative risk factors that predispose to thromboembolism, only a subset of patients develop this complication.
Most simply, individual MHC alleles may be especially effective, or especially ineffective, at presenting antigens from particular infections, so that carrying one or two copies of a given MHC allele might predispose an infected individual to a more or less favorable disease outcome.
We propose that the loss or reduction of BRCA1 may predispose a cell population to neoplastic transformation by altering the balance between cell death and proliferation/survival, rendering it more sensitive to secondary genetic changes.