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Functional significance of a hereditary adenine insertion variant in the 5'-UTR of the endothelin-1 gene.
Pharmacogenetics - 1 Aug 2003
Popowski Katrin, Sperker Bernhard, Kroemer Heyo K, John Ulrich, Laule Michael, Stangl Karl, Cascorbi Ingolf
Abstract excerpt
Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is known as a potent vasoconstrictor peptide and stimulator of cell proliferation. The human preproendothelin-1 mRNA contains a frequent adenine insertion polymorphism (allele frequency = 0.28) within the 5'-untranslated region (5'-UTR), 138 bp downstream of the transcription start site, which was assumed to be related to hypertension. This 5'-UTR variant could putatively influence the mRNA...
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