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Blood pressure levels in male carriers of Arg82Cys in CD300LG.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Støy Julie, Grarup Niels, Hørlyck Arne, Ibsen Liselotte, Rungby Jørgen, Poulsen Per Løgstrup, Brandslund Ivan, Christensen Cramer, Hansen Torben, Pedersen Oluf, Møller Niels, Kampmann Ulla
Abstract excerpt
UNLABELLED: The genetics of hypertension has been scrutinized in large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWAS) with a large number of common genetic variants identified, each exerting subtle effects on disease susceptibility. An amino acid polymorphism, p.Arg82Cys, in CD300LG was recently found to be associated with fasting HDL-cholesterol and triglyceride levels. The polymorphism has not been detected in...
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