Conference News (Hypertension)

Genetic Link May Be Risk Factor for Heart Disease in Blacks

Published in Gene Therapy Weekly, August 4th, 1997

The risk of African Americans contracting heart disease may be influenced by genetic factors, a new study says.

Researchers at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, and the University of California-Los Angeles/Cedars-Sinai Medical Center said they had found a link between the level of blood fats called triglycerides and chromosomes 6 and 16 in African American families.

The results of their study were released at the 12th International Interdisciplinary Conference on Hypertension in Blacks.

The researchers said two genes on chromosome 16 and one on chromosome 6, which control the way the cells make cholesterol, might also...

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