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Association between killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor 2DS5 gene with essential hypertension in the Chinese Han patients.
International journal of immunogenetics - 1 Dec 2017
Wang A L, Jiang B, Qian X Y, Zhang Q, Peng H, Zhang Y H
Abstract excerpt
Hypertension has been suggested to be mediated by immunity and inflammation. As immune system genes, killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) genes play an important role in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. We conducted a community population-based case-control study to analyse associations between KIR genes and hypertension. KIR genes were genotyped using sequence-specific primer polymerase chain...
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