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Angiotensin-converting enzyme and regulation of blood pressure in a large Australian family.
Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology - 1 May 1993
Summers K M, West J A, Huggard P R, West M J
Abstract excerpt
1. Animal studies have implicated the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene as an inherited risk factor contributing towards elevation of blood pressure. 2. A polymorphism of the ACE gene, involving the presence or absence of a 287 base pair (bp) segment within the gene region, was assessed for association with high blood pressure in a large, multigeneration Australian family. The association of these alleles...
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