Article
The combined impact of 12 common variants on hypertension in Japanese men, considering GWAS results.
Journal of human hypertension - 1 Jul 2012
Miyaki K, Htun N C, Song Y, Ikeda S, Muramatsu M, Shimbo T
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association studies have identified several polymorphisms that appear to be on hypertension-susceptible regions. We performed the current replication study in order to evaluate the association of these loci with hypertension in healthy Japanese males and then examined the combined effect of 12 independent variants. Overall, 735 Japanese men from two independent cohorts were recruited. Association with...
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