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Angiotensin-converting enzyme and apolipoprotein E genotypes and restenosis after coronary angioplasty.
Circulation - 15 Oct 1995
van Bockxmeer F M, Mamotte C D, Gibbons F A, Burke V, Taylor R R
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BACKGROUND: An insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism in the gene for angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) has been associated with myocardial infarction and other cardiac pathology. There is evidence for a role of the renin-angiotensin system in cell growth and in the repair of damaged arterial walls, so the ACE gene was postulated to be a candidate gene affecting the important clinical problem of restenosis after...
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