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Overweight, but not hypertension, is associated with SAH polymorphisms in Caucasians with essential hypertension.
Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension - 1 Aug 2003
Benjafield Adam V, Iwai Naoharu, Ishikawa Kazuhiko, Wang William Y S, Morris Brian J
Abstract excerpt
The gene SAH (chromosome 16p12.3) is of interest in the etiology of human hypertension. In Caucasians a PstI restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) of SAH has been correlated with body weight in individuals with hypertension. To extend this finding we carried out a case-control study of...
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