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Age- and gender-dependent association of the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene with essential hypertension in a Chinese population.
Journal of human hypertension - 1 Dec 1996
Chiang F T, Chern T H, Lai Z P, Tseng C D, Hsu K L, Lo H M, Tseng Y Z
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A case-control study was carried out on 272 Chinese subjects over 40 years of age, including 157 hypertensives and 115 normotensives, to examine the association between angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism and blood pressure (BP) status. The I/D polymorphism of the ACE gene was identified by polymerase chain reaction. As a whole group, the difference of allele frequencies...
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