Article
Polymorphism of the angiotensin I converting enzyme gene is apparently not related to high blood pressure: Dutch Hypertension and Offspring Study.
Journal of hypertension - 1 Apr 1993
Schmidt S, van Hooft I M, Grobbee D E, Ganten D, Ritz E
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Studies in genetically hypertensive rats and their normotensive Wistar-Kyoto control rats have revealed a linkage of a chromosomal region containing the angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene with blood pressure. This led to the hypothesis that ACE is a possible candidate gene for pr...
Topics
- Adult
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- DNA
- Female
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Markers
- Genotype
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Netherlands
- Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Sequence Deletion
