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Heterozygous disruption of CMA1 does not affect blood pressure.
Journal of hypertension - 1 Jan 2004
Ono Koh, Kokubo Yoshihiro, Mannami Toshifumi, Inamoto Nozomu, Shioji Keisuke, Iwai Naoharu
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: It has been suspected that the mast cell chymase gene (CMA1) is important for the generation of angiotensin II and therefore might be associated with the pathogenesis of hypertension. METHODS: We sequenced the promoter region, exons, and exon-intron junctions of CMA1 and found 13 single-nucleotide polymorphisms, two of which were loss-of-function mutations. The loss-of-function mutations resulted in:...
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