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Periodontitis And Myocardial Infarction: A Shared Genetic Predisposition

ScienceDaily (Feb. 24, 2009) — A mutual epidemiological relationship between aggressive periodontitis and myocardial infarction has already been shown in the past. Scientists at the universities of Kiel, Dresden, Amsterdam and Bonn have now presented the first evidence of a shared genetic variant on chromosome 9, which maps to a genetic region that codes for the "antisense RNA" Anril, as reported in the latest edition of the specialist journal PLoS Genetics.

 

Periodontitis And Myocardial Infarction: A Shared Genetic Predisposition

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