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Alu-repeat polymorphism in the gene coding for tissue-type plasminogen activator and the risk of hypertension in a Chinese Han population.
Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension - 1 Nov 2002
Wang Bing, Zhou Xin, Dang Aiming, Liu Guozhang, He Ran
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Accumulating data support an association between hypertension and impaired fibrinolytic potential abnormalities in endogenous fibrinolysis. The present study examined whether there was an association between essential hypertension and either a polymorphism in the gene coding for t-PA or the plasma concentration of t-PA antigen. Chinese hypertensive subjects (n = 126) and normotensive controls (n = 102; sex- and...
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