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Variations in APOE genotype distribution in children from areas with different adult cardiovascular disease mortality in Spain.
Human biology - 1 Aug 2004
Garcés C, Cantos M, Benavente M, Granizo J J, Cano B, Viturro E, De Oya M
Abstract excerpt
We investigate whether a varying distribution of the APOE genotype could help explain regional differences in ischemic heart disease (IHD) mortality in Spain. APOE genotypes were examined by PCR in 1,274 randomly selected healthy children from four Spanish regions with different adult IHD mortality rates (northwest and central Spain with low rates and southeast and southern Spain with high rates). In the...
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