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Angiotensinogen gene and essential hypertension in the Japanese: extensive association study and meta-analysis on six reported studies.
Journal of hypertension - 1 Jun 1999
Kato N, Sugiyama T, Morita H, Kurihara H, Yamori Y, Yazaki Y
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BACKGROUND: Accumulating evidence has supported the pathophysiological role of angiotensinogen in essential hypertension. However, some studies of molecular genetics have implicated that there may be an ethnic variation concerning the disease susceptibility of the AGT gene. OBJECTIVES AND METHODS: To evaluate the importance of this candidate gene for hypertension, we undertook an extensive association study in...
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