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Angiotensin-converting enzyme gene polymorphism in Japanese patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
American heart journal - 1 Nov 1995
Yoneya K, Okamoto H, Machida M, Onozuka H, Noguchi M, Mikami T, Kawaguchi H, Murakami M, Uede T, Kitabatake A
Abstract excerpt
To examine the contribution of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), we determined the ACE insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism in 80 patients with HCM and 88 of their unaffected siblings and children. Patients were divided into familial or solitary HCM (FHCM or SHCM) groups with or without affected family members. Genotypes were identified by the polymerase chain...
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