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The Origin of Atherosclerosis

The monoclonal hypothesis, which holds that the proliferating cells of an atherosclerotic plaque all stem from one mutated cell, suggests new lines of research on the causes of coronary disease

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Scientific American Magazine Vol 236 Issue 2This article was originally published with the title “The Origin of Atherosclerosis” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 236 No. 2 (), p. 74
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0277-74