Article
Polymorphisms of the angiotensin-converting-enzyme gene in subjects who die from coronary heart disease.
The Quarterly journal of medicine - 1 Apr 1994
Evans A E, Poirier O, Kee F, Lecerf L, McCrum E, Falconer T, Crane J, O'Rourke D F, Cambien F
Abstract excerpt
It has been shown that myocardial infarction survivors are more likely to carry an insertion/deletion polymorphism (I/D) of the angiotensin-converting-enzyme (ACE) gene than age-matched population controls. To test whether the association with coronary risk had been under-estimated, the frequency...
Topics
- Adult
- Age Factors
- Base Sequence
- Death, Sudden, Cardiac
- Female
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Myocardial Infarction
- Northern Ireland
- Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Population Surveillance
- Random Allocation
- Risk Factors