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DD genotype of the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene is a risk factor for left ventricular hypertrophy.
Circulation - 1 Dec 1994
Iwai N, Ohmichi N, Nakamura Y, Kinoshita M
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BACKGROUND: The cardiac renin-angiotensin system has been suggested to be involved in the development of left ventricular hypertrophy. In humans, a strong correlation has been found between plasma angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) activity and the insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of the ACE gene, which has been reported to be associated with myocardial infarction, ischemic and idiopathic dilated...
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