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Beta-2 adrenoceptor genetic variation is associated with genetic predisposition to essential hypertension: The Bergen Blood Pressure Study.
Kidney international - 1 Jun 1998
Timmermann B, Mo R, Luft F C, Gerdts E, Busjahn A, Omvik P, Li G H, Schuster H, Wienker T F, Hoehe M R, Lund-Johansen P
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We tested the hypothesis that genetic variation in the beta-2 adrenoceptor gene is associated with a genetic predisposition to hypertension. Offspring of two hypertensive parents were compared with offspring of two normotensive parents. The subjects were participants of the Bergen Blood Pressure Study, where couples were recruited in 1963 to 1964 and re-examined in 1990. We studied offspring of those couples in...
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