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Gender-related association of AGT gene variants (M235T and T174M) with essential hypertension--a case-control study.
Clinical and experimental hypertension (New York, N.Y. : 1993) - 1 Jan 2012
Mohana Vamsi U, Swapna N, Surender Reddy S, Vishnupriya S, Padma Tirunilai
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INTRODUCTION: The human angiotensinogen (AGT) is a promising candidate gene for evaluating susceptibility to essential hypertension (EH). We aimed to assess the association of the variants of AGT gene and the extent of risk involved in developing EH. METHODS: A case-control study was designed to compare 279 hypertensive patients with 200 normotensive subjects. The frequency distribution of M235T and T174M...
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