Article
Preliminary evidence of linkage of salt sensitivity in black Americans at the beta 2-adrenergic receptor locus.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 Apr 1997
Svetkey L P, Chen Y T, McKeown S P, Preis L, Wilson A F
Abstract excerpt
Salt sensitivity is a heritable trait that is a hallmark of hypertension in black Americans. Genes encoding adrenergic receptors are candidate loci for the inheritance of this hypertension-related trait because of the role of these receptors in the regulation of renal sodium excretion and vascula...
Topics
- Adult
- Black People
- Blood Pressure
- Chromosome Mapping
- Data Interpretation, Statistical
- Female
- Genes
- Genetic Linkage
- Genotype
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length
- Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-2
- Sodium Chloride
- Black or African American