Article
[A protective effect of GLY272SER polymorphism of GNB3 gene in development of essential hypertension and its relations with environmental hypertension risk factors].
Terapevticheskii arkhiv - 1 Jan 2011
Polonikov A V, Solodilova M A, Ivanov V P, Shestakov A M, Ushachev D V, Vialykh E K, Vasil'eva O V, Poliakova N V, Antsupov V V, Kabanina V A, Kupriianova Ia S, Bulgakova I V, Kozhukhov M A, Tevs D S
Abstract excerpt
AIM: To study associations of C825T (rs5443) and G272S (rs16932941) polymorphisms of GNB3 gene in Russian population of the Central Chernozem region with essential hypertension (EH) risk; to elicit the role of environmental risk factors in realization of EH predisposition in this gene genotypes carriers. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We studied DNA samples obtained from 205 EH patients and 207 healthy individuals. EH...
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