. . . . . . . . . . . . "[There were significant interactions of MPO genotype with the mean area of fibrotic (p < 0.01) and calcified (p < 0.05) lesions in the abdominal aorta and in fibrotic lesions in the thoracic aorta (p = 0.003). In the abdominal aorta, men < 53 years with low-expression genotypes had on average a 38.6% larger area of fibrotic lesions and a 43.8% larger area of calcified lesions than did the subjects with the G/G genotype. This association weakened with advancing age. Among men < 53 years, the MPO genotype was an independent predictor of fibrotic (p = 0.037) and calcified (p = 0.001) lesion area in the abdominal aorta after adjustment for age, body mass index, diabetes, hypertension, and smoking. MPO gene variation may modify the extent of advanced atherosclerotic lesions in the human aorta in early middle age.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2013-07-06"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2014-10-02T12:32:25+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v2.1.0.0" . "v2.1.0" .