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A comprehensive study revealed SNP-SNP interactions and a sex-dependent relationship between polymorphisms of the CYP2J2 gene and hypertension risk.
Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension - 1 Feb 2019
Polonikov Alexey V, Ponomarenko Irina V, Bykanova Marina A, Sirotina Svetlana S, Bocharova Anna V, Vagaytseva Kseniya V, Stepanov Vadim A, Azarova Iuliia E, Churnosov Mikhail I, Solodilova Maria A
Abstract excerpt
This study investigated whether common polymorphisms of cytochrome P450 2J2 (CYP2J2), a major enzyme that controls the biosynthesis of vasoactive epoxyeicosatrienoic acids, are collectively involved in the molecular basis of essential hypertension (EH). A total of 2314 unrelated Russian subjects from the Kursk (discovery sample: 913 EH patients and 645 controls) and Belgorod (replication sample: 345 EH patients...
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