Recent Research Links Heart Disease to Gene Mutations in People of European Decent

I found this article interesting after I had already found a similar article on BBC’s health page. Apparently, teams of researchers have a found a gene that links an increased risk in heart disease and heart attacks to people of European descent. The two different studies found this increased risk associated to mutations in gene 9q21. This gene also happens to be located very close to another set of genes that other researchers recently found to be related to an increased risk in diabetes (genes CDKN2A and CDKN2B). The research was published in Science, but the two articles I found are located at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6615237.stm and http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CardiacHealth/wireStory?id=3136607.