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Modifier genes and heart failure.
Minerva cardioangiologica - 1 Apr 2003
Le Corvoisier P, Park H Y, Rockman H A
Abstract excerpt
Recent progress in genomic applications have led to a better understanding of the relationship between genetic background and cardiovascular diseases such as heart failure. A considerable component of the variability in heart failure outcome is due to modifier genes, i.e. genes that are not involve in the genesis of a disease but modify the severity of the phenotypic expression once the disease has developed. The...
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