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Mitochondrial Genome Mutations Associated with Myocardial Infarction.
Disease markers - 1 Jan 2018
Sazonova Margarita A, Ryzhkova Anastasia I, Sinyov Vasily V, Galitsyna Elena V, Melnichenko Alexandra A, Demakova Natalya A, Sobenin Igor A, Shkurat Tatiana P, Orekhov Alexander N
Abstract excerpt
Myocardial infarction is one of the clinical manifestations of coronary heart disease. In some cases, the cause of myocardial infarction may be atherosclerotic plaques which occurred in the human aorta. The association of mtDNA mutations with atherosclerotic lesions in human arteries was previously detected by our research group. In this study, we used samples of white blood cells collected from 225 patients with...
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