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Angiotensin converting enzyme gene polymorphism in primary vesicoureteral reflux.
Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) - 1 Aug 2001
Ohtomo Y, Nagaoka R, Kaneko K, Fukuda Y, Miyano T, Yamashiro Y
Abstract excerpt
We studied the insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism of the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene in 78 patients with primary vesicoureteral reflux (VUR), and examined renal function by dimercaptosuccinate (DMSA) renoscintigraphy and diethylenetriamine-penta-acetic acid (DTPA) renogram in each genotype. Patients were classified into three genotypes according to the ACE gene I/D polymorphisms: 32 in II...
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