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[Frequency of apolipoprotein E in a Nahua population].
Revista de investigacion clinica; organo del Hospital de Enfermedades de la Nutricion - 1 Jan 2000
Suástegui Román Roberto Alfonso, Yescas Gómez Petra, Guerrero Camacho Jorge Luis, Ochoa Morales Adriana, Granados Julio, Jara Prado Aurelio, López-Caro Oscar Alejandro, Alonso Vilatela Ma Elisa
Abstract excerpt
The presence of different ethnic groups in Mexico may give rise to genetic diversity between the native Indian population and the Mestizos. It is therefore of medical and anthropological interest to analyze the genotypes of disease-associated loci, such as polymorphism in the apolipoprotein E gene, whose 4/4 allele increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease and coronary heart disease in other populations. We...
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