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The Lys198Asn polymorphism in the endothelin-1 gene is associated with blood pressure in overweight people.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 May 1999
Tiret L, Poirier O, Hallet V, McDonagh T A, Morrison C, McMurray J J, Dargie H J, Arveiler D, Ruidavets J B, Luc G, Evans A, Cambien F
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There is accumulating evidence that endothelin-1 plays an important role in vascular pathophysiology. Our objective was to examine whether molecular variations at the endothelin-1 locus were involved in susceptibility to myocardial infarction and variation in blood pressure. The entire coding sequence and 1.4 kb of the 5' flanking region were screened. Five polymorphisms were detected, which were genotyped in the...
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