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Association of angiotensin converting enzyme gene (I/D) polymorphism with hypertension and type 2 diabetes.
Bratislavske lekarske listy - 1 Jan 2012
Zarouk W A, Hussein I R, Esmaeil N N, Raslan H M, Reheim H A A, Moguib O, Emara N A, Aly A A, Hamed M
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OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to determine the association of insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of the ACE gene in hypertensive and T2DM subjects in Egyptian population. BACKGROUND: The deletion (D) allele of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene has been studied in relation to hypertension and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) with contradictory results which might be due to ethnic and...
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