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Association of renin BglI polymphism with essential hypertension: a meta-analysis involving 1811 cases and 1626 controls.
Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993) - 1 Jan 2010
Niu Wenquan, Qi Yue, Guo Shujie, Gao Pingjin, Zhu Dingliang
Abstract excerpt
In an effort to clarify association of an intronic polymorphism BglI in a renin gene with essential hypertension, we performed a meta-analysis of the case-control association studies. Publications in the English language and human subjects were searched in PubMed and EMBASE as of July 10, 2009. A fixed-effects model was applied to pool data in the absence of between-studies heterogeneity, and a random-effects...
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