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Haplotypic analyses of the aldosterone synthase gene CYP11B2 associated with stage-2 hypertension in northern Han Chinese.
Clinical genetics - 1 Nov 2004
Gu D, Ge D, He J, Li B, Chen J, Liu D, Chen J, Chen R
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The objective of this study was to investigate the association of polymorphisms in the aldosterone synthase gene CYP11B2 (-344T/C, Lys173/Arg, and an intronic conversion [IC]) with stage-2 hypertension in northern Han Chinese. A total of 503 hypertensives and their age-, gender-, and area-matched controls were included in this study. The female hypertensives had significantly higher frequencies of the -344T,...
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