Article
Association of the angiotensinogen gene to serum angiotensinogen in blacks and whites.
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979) - 1 May 1997
Bloem L J, Foroud T M, Ambrosius W T, Hanna M P, Tewksbury D A, Pratt J H
Abstract excerpt
A variant of the angiotensinogen gene (AGT) that encodes for threonine at codon 235 (T235) has been associated with a higher serum angiotensinogen concentration and with hypertension in white subjects. The frequency of T235 is about two times higher in blacks than whites, suggesting that AGT may...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Alleles
- Angiotensinogen
- Black People
- Blood Pressure
- Child
- Female
- Humans
- Hypertension
- Male
- White People