Linkage of Essential Hypertension to the Angiotensinogen Locus in Mexican Americans

Hypertension

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 326-330

  Atwood, Larry D ^a   Kammerer, Candace M ^a   Samollow, Paul B ^a   Hixson, James E ^a   Shade, Robert E ^a   MacCluer, Jean W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSINOGEN; DNA;

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; ETHNIC GROUP; FAMILY STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENIN ANGIOTENSIN ALDOSTERONE SYSTEM;

ADULT; ANGIOTENSINOGEN; BODY MASS INDEX; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0030815510     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: 15244563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.30.3.326     Document Type: Article

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