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Is angiotensin I-converting enzyme a "master" disease gene?
Diabetes technology & therapeutics - 1 Jan 2002
Moskowitz David W
Abstract excerpt
Clustering of diseases has been appreciated by health insurers and epidemiologists for some time. Co-morbidity suggests shared pathways of disease. It is by now well agreed that common diseases have a strong genetic component. Here we present evidence that the angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) deletion/deletion (D/D) genotype is associated with a large number of common adult diseases, including cardiovascular...
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