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European Heart Journal 2003 24(6):501-503; doi:10.1016/S0195-668X(02)00695-4
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Editorial

Well kept secrets of the genome

H Schunkert* and J Erdmann

Department of Internal Medicine 2, University of Regensburg, Franz-Josef-Strauss-Allee 11, 93053 Regensburg, Germany

* Corresponding author. Tel.: +49-941-944-7233; fax: +49-941-944-7235
E-mail address: heribert.schunkert@klinik.uni-regensburg.de

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See doi:10.1016/S1095-668X(02)00524-9for the article to which this editorial refers.

When, lo, as they reached the mountain-side,

A wondrous portal opened wide,

As if a cavern was suddenly hollowed,

And the Piper advanced and the childrenfollowed...

Gebrüder Grimm/Robert Browning

The Pied Piper of Hamelin: A Child's Story (Der Rattenfänger von Hameln)

Geneticists interested in complex cardiovascular diseases follow the tune that of the risk of suffering from hypertension, left ventricular hypertrophy or myocardial infarction is 30–50% inherited. This melody lives again in the study by Swan et al., published in this issue.1 . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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