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Functional alterations of the Nppa promoter are linked to cardiac ventricular hypertrophy in WKY/WKHA rat crosses.
Circulation research - 2 Feb 2001
Deschepper C F, Masciotra S, Zahabi A, Boutin-Ganache I, Picard S, Reudelhuber T L
Abstract excerpt
Cardiac left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) is commonly associated with hypertension, but its variance is determined for more than 50% by blood pressure-independent genetic factors. Because it constitutes one of the most important risk factors for cardiovascular mortality, we have performed a genome-wide scan of the F2 progeny of crosses between inbred WKY and WKHA rats to detect quantitative trait loci (QTL)...
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