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Association between hypertension and variation in the alpha- and beta-adducin genes in a white population.
Kidney international - 1 Dec 2002
Wang Ji-Guang, Staessen Jan A, Barlassina Cristina, Fagard Robert, Kuznetsova Tatiana, Struijker-Boudier Harry A, Zagato Laura, Citterio Lorena, Messaggio Elisabetta, Bianchi Giuseppe
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BACKGROUND: The substitution of tryptophan for glycine at amino acid 460 (Gly460Trp polymorphism) of the alpha-subunit of the heterodimeric cytoskeleton protein adducin increases renal sodium reabsorption and may be involved in the pathophysiology of essential hypertension. In the present study, we investigated in multivariate analyses whether the risk of hypertension was associated with the C1797T polymorphism...
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