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A smoking-dependent risk of coronary artery disease associated with a polymorphism of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase gene.
Nature medicine - 1 Jan 1996
Wang X L, Sim A S, Badenhop R F, McCredie R M, Wilcken D E
Abstract excerpt
Endothelium-dependent vasodilatation is mediated by release of nitric oxide formed by constitutively expressed endothelial nitric oxide synthase (ecNOS). We explored the distribution of polymorphism ecNOS4a/b in 549 subjects with, and 153 without, coronary artery disease in relation to smoking. I...
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