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Angiotensinogen as a risk factor for essential hypertension in Japan.
The Journal of clinical investigation - 1 Mar 1994
Hata A, Namikawa C, Sasaki M, Sato K, Nakamura T, Tamura K, Lalouel J M
Abstract excerpt
A common molecular variant of angiotensinogen (AGT), the precursor of the potent vasoactive hormone angiotensin II, has been incriminated as a marker for a genetic predisposition to essential hypertension in Caucasians (Jeunemaitre, X., F. Soubrier, Y. V. Kotelevtsev, R. P. Lifton, C. S. Williams, A. Charru, S. C. Hunt, P. N. Hopkins, R. R. Williams, J. M. Lalouel, and P. Corvol. 1992. Cell. 71:169-180). We now...
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