Interestingly, in a search for genes associated with insulin resistance, a genotype of galectin-2, LGALS2 rs7291467, was stronger associated with changed fasting plasma glucose and serum insulin than other alleles were [26], and the same genotype which has a single-nucleotide polymorphism (3279C [right arrow] T) in intron 1 of LGALS2 encoding galectin-2 was previously found to be significantly associated with myocardial infarction [27].
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Whereas a study in the Japanese population showed a functional single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) rs7291467 (C3279C[left arrow]T) in the Gal-2 gene (
LGALS2) that was associated with increased risk of AMI [92], these results could not be confirmed in Caucasian individuals, and a meta-analysis of seven studies showed no association between LGALS2-C3279T and coronary artery disease [93].