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Lack of association between STK39 and hypertension in the Chinese population.
Journal of human hypertension - 1 May 2013
Xu J, Ji L D, Zhang L N, Dong C Z, Fei L J, Hua S, Tsai J Y, Zhang Y P
Abstract excerpt
Genome-wide association study (GWAS) has identified serine/threonine kinase 39 (STK39) as a candidate gene for hypertension. A replication study provided supporting evidence that STK39 functional polymorphism rs35929607 was associated with hypertension. Recently, another study also showed rs6749447 within the STK39 was associated with blood pressure responses. However, these studies were all conducted in...
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