Article
Non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with blood pressure and hypertension.
Journal of human hypertension - 1 Nov 2010
Hong K-W, Jin H-S, Lim J-E, Cho Y S, Go M J, Jung J, Lee J-E, Choi J, Shin C, Hwang S-Y, Lee S-H, Park H K, Oh B
Abstract excerpt
In this study, we determined the association of 1180 non-synonymous single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) with systolic blood pressure (SBP) and hypertensive status. A total of 8842 subjects were taken from two community-based cohorts--Ansung (n=4183) and Ansan (n=4659), South Korea--which had been established for genome-wide association studies (GWAS). Five SNPs (rs16835244, rs2286672, rs6265, rs17237198 and...
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