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Association of ATP1B1, RGS5 and SELE polymorphisms with hypertension and blood pressure in African-Americans.
Journal of hypertension - 1 Oct 2011
Faruque Mezbah U, Chen Guanjie, Doumatey Ayo, Huang Hanxia, Zhou Jie, Dunston Georgia M, Rotimi Charles N, Adeyemo Adebowale A
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OBJECTIVE: Although an increasing number of hypertension-associated genetic variants is being reported, replication of these findings in independent studies has been challenging. Several genes in a human chromosome 1q linkage region have been reported to be associated with hypertension. We examined polymorphisms in three of these genes (ATP1B1, RGS5 and SELE) in relation to hypertension and blood pressure in a...
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