Article
Aldosterone synthase gene in patients suffering from hyperaldosteronism.
Endocrine research - 1 Jan 2000
Hampf M, Widimský J, Bernhardt R
Abstract excerpt
In this study the known promoter region of P450aldo gene (CYP11B2) was investigated in patients with idiopathic hyperaldosteronism, a disease characterised by hypertension due to aldosterone oversecretion. We amplified the 2.2 kb promoter region of 6 patients and 7 controls from the same ethnic p...
Topics
- Alleles
- Base Sequence
- Cytochrome P-450 CYP11B2
- Humans
- Hyperaldosteronism
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Promoter Regions, Genetic
- Reference Values
