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Molecular genetics of the SA-gene: cosegregation with hypertension and mapping to rat chromosome 1.
Journal of hypertension - 1 Jan 1993
Lindpaintner K, Hilbert P, Ganten D, Nadal-Ginard B, Inagami T, Iwai N
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OBJECTIVES: The SA-gene shows markedly higher levels of expression in the kidneys of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) than in their non-hypertensive reference strain, the Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rat. Based on the important role of the kidney in blood pressure regulation, the possibility has been raised that this gene, the translational product of which remains unknown, may participate in the pathogenesis of...
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