CYP2J2 and myocardial infarction: Furthermore, it was confirmed that the typical defective allele CYP2J2*7 was an independent risk factor for premature myocardial infarction in the Chinese Han population and increased the risk of MI in a predominantly Caucasian population and South Indian population (Liu et al., 2007; Marciante et al., 2008; Arun Kumar et al., 2015).