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Article: NSW: Melbourne researchers find heart attack genes
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- May 23, 2002
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NSW: Melbourne researchers find heart attack genes
By Judy Skatssoon, National Medical Correspondent
SYDNEY, May 23 AAP - Melbourne researchers have become the first
in the world to identify
a set of genes that could make a person more prone to heart attack.
The study, the first ever of its kind, involved testing the DNA
of brothers and sisters
who shared a history of heart attack.
Research team leader Professor Stephen Harrap of Melbourne University'
s physiology
department said the discovery of the location of the three genes would
pave the way for
new ways of preventing and treating heart attack.
Dr Harrap said while high blood pressure, cholesterol ...