Our data suggested a trend of association between VEGF gene polymorphisms and RA, and patients who carried the haplotype GA of rs2010963 and rs833070 were more susceptible to RA.
No significant association between the VEGFA rs2010963 and the rs1570360 polymorphisms (neither isolated nor joined as allelic combinations) with clinically evident CV disease was found in this series of patients with RA.
The aim of this study was to asses the role of -1154 G-->A (rs1570360) and -634 G-->C (rs2010963) VEGF gene functional variants with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).