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The angiotensin-I converting enzyme I/D polymorphism is not associated with type 2 diabetes in individuals undergoing coronary angiography. (The Ludwigshafen Risk and Cardiovascular Health Study).
Molecular genetics and metabolism - 1 Aug 2006
Grammer Tanja B, Renner Wilfried, von Karger Sabine, Boehm Bernhard O, Winkelmann Bernhard R, Maerz Winfried
Abstract excerpt
The deletion (D) allele of the angiotensin-I converting enzyme (ACE) is associated with higher ACE activity and has been implicated only recently in the pathogenesis of type 2 diabetes in Caucasian subjects. We have studied the ACE I/D polymorphism in 1054 patients with type 2 diabetes and in 2251 individuals without type 2 diabetes in Caucasians persons undergoing coronary angiography. Further parameters of...
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