Article
Angiotensinogen gene and blood pressure in the Japanese population.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Apr 1995
Iwai N, Shimoike H, Ohmichi N, Kinoshita M
Abstract excerpt
A molecular variant of the angiotensinogen gene with threonine instead of methionine at position 235 (ie, with M235T polymorphism) has been shown to be associated with essential hypertension in Caucasian populations. The purpose of the present study was to assess whether the M235T polymorphism wa...
Topics
- Angiotensinogen
- Asian People
- Base Sequence
- Blood Pressure
- Body Mass Index
- Diastole
- Echocardiography
- Female
- Genes
- Genotype
- Heart Ventricles
- Humans
- Japan
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Probes
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A