[A study focusing on candidate genes associated with premature cardiovascular disease discovered that missense variations in the thrombospondin 1 and 4 genes were associated with premature coronary artery disease, while a mutation in the non-coding region of a thrombospondin 2 gene imparts protection from developing heart disease.]. 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