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Studies from Research Center have provided new information about heart disease

Published in Cardiovascular Device Liability Week, October 28th, 2007

"' The role of gene-environment interactions as risk factors for coronary heart disease (CAD) remains largely undefined. Such interactions may involve gene mutations and disease conditions such as type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2) predisposing individuals to acquiring the disease," researchers in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia report.

"In the present study, we assessed the possible interactive effect of DM2 and E- selectin SI28R polymorphism with respect to its predisposing individuals to CAD, using as a study model a population of 1,112 patients and 427 angiographed controls of Saudi origin. E-selectin genotyping was accomplished by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification...

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