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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

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