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Association study between the variants of the human ANP gene and essential hypertension.
Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension - 1 May 2001
Rahmutula D, Nakayama T, Soma M, Takahashi Y, Kunimoto M, Uwabo J, Sato M, Izumi Y, Kanmatsuse K, Ozawa Y
Abstract excerpt
Variants of atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) are reported to be more common in blacks with hypertension than in normotensive controls and constitute an independent risk factor for cerebral infarction. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the role of ANP in the pathogenesis of essen...
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