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Angiotensinogen M235T genotype predicts progression in chronic renal allograft dysfunction.
Transplantation - 27 Jan 2003
Prasad G V Ramesh, Pinnaduwage Dushanthi, Parkes Robert K, Midgley Julian, Balfe J Williamson, Hegele Robert A, Bull Shelley B, Cole Edward H, Logan Alexander G
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BACKGROUND: Genotypes of the renin-angiotensin system have been implicated in essential hypertension and in progression of native kidney diseases, but gene effects on progression in chronic renal allograft dysfunction are unclear. METHODS: To examine gene effects on long-term renal allograft function, we conducted a prospective cohort study of 210 nondiabetic renal allograft recipients younger than 36 years of...
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