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The angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) locus is strongly associated with age and duration of diabetes in patients with type I diabetes.
Journal of diabetes and its complications - 1 Jan 2000
Hibberd M L, Millward B A, Demaine A G
Abstract excerpt
We have investigated the frequency of the angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) insertion/ deletion (I/D) polymorphism in 249 patients with type I diabetes and 162 normal healthy controls. There was no significant difference in the frequency of ACE genotypes between those patients with diabetic nephropathy (n = 72) (nephropaths) compared to those with no proteinuria after 20 years duration of diabetes (n = 86)...
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