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The association between preeclampsia and angiotensin-converting enzyme insertion/deletion polymorphism.
Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry - 1 Mar 2004
Gürdöl Figen, Işbilen Elif, Yilmaz Hülya, Isbir Turgay, Dirican Ahmet
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BACKGROUND: Plasma and tissue angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) activities are believed to be under genetic control. Increased ACE activity due to the deletion polymorphism of the ACE gene is associated with a wide variety of diseases that exhibit endothelial disturbances. Available reports suggest that the incidence of ACE gene deletion polymorphism associated with preeclampsia varies depending on the study...
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