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Kidney specificity of rat chromosome 1 blood pressure quantitative trait locus region.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Sept 2002
Clemitson Jenny-Rebecca, Pratt Julian R, Frantz Simon, Sacks Steven, Samani Nilesh J
Abstract excerpt
Rat chromosome 1 has a region containing loci that influence blood pressure. In the present study, we investigated whether these loci mediate their effect via the kidney. Taking advantage of the histocompatibility between a congenic strain (WKY.SHR-Sa, which contains the relevant chromosomal region from the spontaneously hypertensive rat) and its parental strain, the Wistar-Kyoto rat (WKY), we compared the effect...
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