ASSOCIATION OF PROTEIN POLYMORPHISMS WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE

摘要

The invention concerns methods of identifying an increase in risk for coronary heart disease in an individual, wherein the presence of another amino acid than Glutaminic Acid at position 23 and/or the presence of another amino acid than Valine at position 337 in the Kir6.2 protein is determined in a sample. Moreover, probes, primers, polypeptides or polynucleotides suitable for said methods are claimed.