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Science 13 February 2004:
Vol. 303. no. 5660, p. 941
DOI: 10.1126/science.303.5660.941a
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HEART DISEASE:
Gene Suggests Asthma Drugs May Ease Cardiovascular Inflammation

Ingrid Wickelgren

Geneticists have fingered the first common gene associated with a higher risk of both heart attacks and strokes, they reported online this week in Nature Genetics. The gene codes for a protein that is required for the synthesis of potent inflammatory molecules called leukotrienes.

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