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University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists have found important answers about strokes, heart attacks and cardiovascular diseases by probing the biological glue our bodies create to protect us from those deadly dangers.
University of Virginia researchers and their collaborators have identified genes that play key roles in the development of coronary artery disease, the No. 1 cause of death worldwide.
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Up to 60 percent of the risk associated with coronary arteriosclerosis may be explained by changes in the activity of hundreds of genes working
E-Mail IMAGE: Researcher Mete Civelek, PhD, of the University of Virginia School of Medicine's Department of Biomedical Engineering and UVA's Center for Public Health Genomics. view more Credit: Courtesy Civelek lab Researchers at the University of Virginia have shed light on how our genes affect our risk for coronary artery disease, the most common form of heart disease. In addition to identifying gene variants that influence risk, they found that one gene in particular appears to have a protective effect. Doctors may be able to use the findings to identify people at high risk ...