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Candidate gene polymorphisms and the 9p21 locus in acute coronary syndromes.
Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Oct 2008
Tousoulis Dimitris, Briasoulis Alexandros, Papageorgiou Nikos, Antoniades Charalambos, Stefanadis Christodoulos
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It is now widely accepted that the classic environmental risk factors for atherosclerosis only partly explain the incidence of coronary artery disease and the development of acute coronary syndromes. Therefore, genetic factors that vary among human populations seem to be involved in the clinical manifestations of such patients. Substantial data suggest that a significant proportion of genetic polymorphisms...
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