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alpha-Adducin gene and essential hypertension in China.
Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993) - 1 Oct 2001
He X, Zhu D L, Chu S L, Jin L, Xiong M M, Wang G L, Zhang W Z, Zhou H F, Mao S Y, Zhan Y M, Zhuang Q N, Liu X M, Zhao Y, Huang W
Abstract excerpt
Adducin is a membrane skeletal protein that is involved in the regulation of membrane ion transport and cellular signal transduction. Essential hypertension has been linked to alpha-adducin gene locus, and association of a polymorphism of the gene has been found in some studies, but results of linkage or association studies on alpha-adducin gene are controversial among different populations. This study was...
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