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Combined "pro-atherosclerotic" variants of the ACE and APOE genes increase the risk of the coronary artery disease associated with the presence of cigarette smoking.
Acta cardiologica - 1 Dec 2008
Zak Iwona, Niemiec Pawel, Balcerzyk Anna, Krauze Jolanta
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Cigarette smoking increases the synthesis of angiotensin-1 converting enzyme (ACE) and induces oxidative modifications of the apolipoprotein E (apo E).Thus we explored the gene-environment interactions between APOE gene epsilon and ACE gene insertion/deletion polymorphisms and cigarette smoking in coronary artery disease (CAD) patients. METHODS: We analysed 360 subjects: 171 CAD patients and 189 blood...
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