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Lack of association between angiotensinogen polymorphism (M235T) and cerebrovascular disease and carotid atheroma.
Journal of human hypertension - 1 Aug 1995
Barley J, Markus H, Brown M, Carter N
Abstract excerpt
Genetic influences in cerebrovascular disease (CVD) may act either independently or by predisposing to, or modulating, the effect of risk factors such as hypertension. Factors involved in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis, thrombosis and vasoconstriction are important in CVD. The angiotensinogen gene has recently been linked with essential hypertension in affected sibships and a particular polymorphism in exon...
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