Patent ID: 8084198

Claim:
A method for identifying a human individual with a cardiovascular disease or identifying a human individual with an increased risk for developing a cardiovascular disease comprising: a) isolating a sample comprising a genomic GIP sequence from the human individual, b) detecting in said sample a guanosine at position 2 of SEQ ID NO: 1 in both alleles of the genomic GIP sequence, and c) determining that said human individual with two guanosine alleles at position 2 of SEQ ID NO: 1 has a cardiovascular disease or has an increased risk for developing a cardiovascular disease in comparison to a human individual with one or two adenosine alleles at position 2 of SEQ ID NO: 1, wherein said cardiovascular disease is selected from the group consisting of coronary heart disease, unstable angina, acute coronary syndrome, myocardial infarction and premature myocardial infarction.