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Single allele lowers heart risk
Email: Nick Atkinson - nwa@entangled.org News from The Scientist 2004, 5(1):20040908-01
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Were it not for a single base pair insertion/deletion mutation in the MMP3 gene sequence, the incidence of heart disease among modern Europeans would be much higher, according to the authors of a study published this week in Current Biology. But others cast doubt on the suggestion that the gene necessarily played such an important role.
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