Association analysis of six candidate genes in a sample of Australian hypertensive patients

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 454-456

  Huggard, P R ^a   Summers, K M ^a   West, J ^a   West, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

angiotensin II receptor; angiotensinogen; elastin; hypertension; insulin receptor; insulin like growth factor receptor; kallikrein; microsatellite polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BLOOD VESSEL DIAMETER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; HUMAN;

EID: 0030945743     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.1997.tb01224.x     Document Type: Article

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