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A team of scientists belonging to the Association HaemGen was to study the composition of the human genome to determine how blood.

After a considerable period of investigation, we discovered 22 genetic variants associated with conditions of blood. Special attention was paid to the concentration of hemoglobin quantity of red cells or red blood cells, platelets and white blood cells.

All these investigations are highly important because collaborating with the exact description of how our body carries different amounts of oxygen cells, consistent with how the defense with possible infections, in which cases are formed clots, etc..

In the first phase of the study were investigated out of 15,000 agencies. In each case the corresponding blood characteristics were identified and 22 were specified characteristics associated with the following parameters of study: red cells, white cells, platelets and hemoglobin.

Roberto Elosua, a member of the Municipal Institute of Medical Research (IMIM) and Center for Biomedical Research Network in Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP) Barcelona shared the investigation and he has applied the discovery to the An analysis of the likely increase in people originating from mainland Europe to suffer a myocardial infarction.

According to scientific tests, the higher they are, the number of red blood cells over the possibilities of suffering heart problems. Furthermore, we found that platelets are essential in the formation of clots that can cause blockages and finish of myocardial infarction.