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Angiotensin-converting enzyme gene insertion/deletion polymorphism with metabolic syndrome in Turkish patients.
Journal of endocrinological investigation - 1 Nov 2013
Simsek S, Tekes S, Turkyilmaz A, Tuzcu A K, Kılıc F, Culcu N N, Isık B, Akbas H
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The ACE gene has received substantial attention in recent years as candidate for a variety of diseases. The most common polymorphism in ACE gene is the Insertion/Deletion (I/D, rs4646994) polymorphism located on intron 16. AIM: We investigated the association between metabolic syndrome (MS) and the insertion (I) - deletion (D) polymorphisms in the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene in south-east...
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