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ATP2B1 and blood pressure: from associations to pathophysiology.
Current opinion in nephrology and hypertension - 1 Mar 2013
Hirawa Nobuhito, Fujiwara Akira, Umemura Satoshi
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Recent genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have revealed that the ATP2B1 gene is associated with hypertension not only in people of European origin, but also in Japanese, Chinese, and Koreans. However, ATP2B1 has never been considered to be a candidate gene for essential hypertension. Thus, this review summarizes the findings obtained in GWAS regarding the role of the ATP2B1 gene in...
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