[Although ischemic stroke can result from merely one gene defect (and a number of clearly defined mendelian hereditary disorders do lead to stroke), the interaction of unfavorable genetic factors such as the Leiden V, methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) 677TT, apolipoprotein E (ApoE) 4, and angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) D/D genotypes, which alone are not major risk factors, can in specific patterns exert a synergistic effect on certain clinical risk factors.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE