Are Canadian Inuit at increased genetic risk for coronary heart disease?

Journal of Molecular Medicine

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 364-370

  Hegele, Robert A ^a,b,c,d   Young, T Kue ^g   Connelly, Philip W ^b,d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

angiotensin converting enzyme; angiotensinogen; apolipoproteins; fatty acid binding protein; genetic predisposition; paraoxonase

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PREVALENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALLELES; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; ARYLDIALKYLPHOSPHATASE; CANADA; CARRIER PROTEINS; CORONARY DISEASE; ESTERASES; FATTY ACID-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; INUITS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELIN P2 PROTEIN; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR PROTEINS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030923951     PISSN: 09462716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001090050122     Document Type: Article

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