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Testing genetic susceptibility loci for alcoholic heart muscle disease.
Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research - 1 Oct 2001
Kajander O A, Kupari M, Perola M, Pajarinen J, Savolainen V, Penttilä A, Karhunen P J
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Although many heavy alcohol users have subclinical alcoholic heart muscle disease, only a very few develop severe dilated cardiomyopathy. Therefore, and because cardiac abnormalities correlate only weakly with the duration or quantity of drinking, individual susceptibility differences may exist. In this work we examined whether common gene variants previously associated with cardiac hypertrophy or...
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