African Americans have higher blood levels of a protein associated with increased heart-disease risk than European Americans, despite higher "good" HDL cholesterol and lower "bad" triglyceride levels. This contradictory observation now may be explained, in part, by a genetic variant identified in the first large-scale, genome-wide association study of this protein involving 12,000 African American and Hispanic American women.
URL: http://www.news-medical.net/news/20120831/Researchers-identify-several-genetic-factors-linked-to-C-reactive-protein.aspx
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