An ecological study of association between coronary heart disease mortality rates in men and the relative frequencies of common allelic variations in the gene coding for apolipoprotein E

Human Genetics

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 234-241

  Stengård, Jari H ^a,c   Weiss, Kenneth M ^b   Sing, Charles F ^d  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN E2; APOLIPOPROTEIN E3; APOLIPOPROTEIN E4; CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; LIPOPROTEIN;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; GENE FREQUENCY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LIPID METABOLISM; LIPOPROTEIN METABOLISM; MALE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ALLELES; APOLIPOPROTEINS E; CORONARY DISEASE; GENE FREQUENCY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031666790     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004390050811     Document Type: Article

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