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Mutations of the connexin 37 and 40 gap-junction genes in patients with acute myocardial infarction.
Clinical laboratory - 1 Jan 2013
Seifi Morteza, Fallah Soudabeh, Ghasemi Asghar, Aghajani Hasan, Razaghi Maliheh, Danaei Nasim
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BACKGROUND: There is evidence showing the association between connexin 37 (Cx37) C1019T polymorphism and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Since there has been no study that takes the polymorphisms of Cx37 and connexin 40 (Cx40) into consideration at the same time, we investigated the association between AMI and the polymorphism gene of two gap junction proteins Cx 37 and Cx40 which are important in the...
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