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Associations of epithelial sodium channel genes with blood pressure changes and hypertension incidence: the GenSalt study.
American journal of hypertension - 1 Nov 2014
Yang Xueli, He Jiang, Gu Dongfeng, Hixson James E, Huang Jianfeng, Rao Dabeeru C, Shimmin Lawrence C, Chen Jichun, Rice Treva K, Li Jianxin, Schwander Karen, Kelly Tanika N
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: We examined the associations of epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) genes with blood pressure (BP) changes and hypertension incidence in a longitudinal family study. METHODS: A total of 2,755 Han Chinese participants of the Genetic Epidemiology Network of Salt Sensitivity (GenSalt) baseline examination were eligible for this study. The associations of 43 tag single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in ENaC...
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