Polymorphisms of renin-angiotensin genes among Nigerians, Jamaicans, and African Americans.

doi:10.1161/01.hyp.27.3.558

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Polymorphisms of renin-angiotensin genes among Nigerians, Jamaicans, and African Americans.

Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Mar 1996

Rotimi C, Puras A, Cooper R, McFarlane-Anderson N, Forrester T, Ogunbiyi O, Morrison L, Ward R

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Within the context of an international collaborative study of the evolution of hypertension in the black diaspora, we determined the allelic distribution of hypertension candidate genes for the renin-angiotensin system in three populations of African origin. The insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorph...

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Alleles
Angiotensinogen
Black or African American
Black People
Hypertension
Jamaica
Nigeria
Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A
Polymorphism, Genetic
United States
Humans

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