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Associations between hypertension and genes in the renin-angiotensin system.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 May 2003
Zhu Xiaofeng, Chang Yen-Pei C, Yan Denise, Weder Alan, Cooper Richard, Luke Amy, Kan Donghui, Chakravarti Aravinda
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The genes of the renin-angiotensin system have been subjected to intense molecular scrutiny in cardiovascular disease studies, but their contribution to risk is still uncertain. In this study, we sampled 192 African American and 153 European American families (602 and 608 individuals, respectively) to evaluate the contribution of variations in genes that encode renin-angiotensin system components of...
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