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Coronary heart disease among Circassians in Israel is not associated with mutations in thrombophilia genes.
Human biology - 1 Feb 2003
Falik-Zaccai Tzipora C, Haron Yafa, Eilat Danny, Harash Bakky, Golinker Ekaterina, Hussein Osamah, Eisikovits Rivka, Borochowitz Zvi, Linn Shai
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The Muslim Circassian community in Israel represents a unique ethnic community that has never been genetically and medically studied. One hundred and fifty-three randomly selected individuals (91 men and 62 women, ages 35 and older), both healthy or with a history of cardiovascular disease (14 men and 7 women), were studied in a cross-sectional descriptive study for mutations in three genes known to be associated...
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