Altered gene protects some African-Americans from coronary artery disease

Thursday, January 27, 2011 - 14:31 in Health & Medicine

A team of scientists at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere has discovered that a single alteration in the genetic code of about a fourth of African-Americans helps protect them from coronary artery disease,...

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