A monthly publication of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology and considered the main channel for the promotion of Brazilian cardiovascular research.
ISSN 0066-782X
eISSN 1678-4170
Denise da Silva Pinheiro
, Rosália Santos Amorim Jesuíno
Denise da Silva Pinheiro
, Rosália Santos Amorim Jesuíno
Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD), and more specifically Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), continue to be the most important causes of death from non-communicable diseases in Brazil and in the world. , Therefore, scientific efforts have been made to identify new biochemical markers and in the elucidation of genotypic risk profiles for CAD and other CVDs in the field of disease-association medical genetics. In this sense, a gene that has been extensively studied is the paraoxanase (PON) gene, which has three gene cluster […]
Keywords: Aryldialkylphosphatase/genetics; Biomarkers; Coronary Artery Disease/genética; Genetic Association Studies; Genetic Predisposition to Disease; Lipoproteins/blood; Paraoxanase 1 (PON 1); Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide