DD genotype of the angiotensin I-converting enzyme gene is a risk factor for early onset of essential hypertension in Japanese patients

Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 502-506

  Nakano, Yukiko ^a   Oshima, Tetsuya ^a   Hiraga, Hiroyuki ^a   Matsuura, Hideo ^a   Kajiyama, Goro ^a   Kambe, Masayuki ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032104070     PISSN: 00222143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2143(98)90058-0     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Ehlers MRW, Riordan JE. Angiotensin-converting enzyme: new concepts concerning its biological role. Biochemistry 1989;28:5311-8.
2. Erdos E, Skidgel RA. The angiotensin I-converting enzyme. Lab Invest 1987;56:345-8.
3. Rigat B, Hubert C, Alhenc-Galas F, Cambien F, Corvol P, Soubrief E. An insertion/deletion polymorphism in the angiotensin I-converting enzyme gene accounting for half the variance of serum enzyme levels. J Clin Invest 1990;86:1343-6.
4. Tiret L, Rigat B, Visvikis S, Breda C, Corvol P, Cambien F, et al. Evidence from combined segregation and linkage analysis that a variant of the angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) gene controls plasma ACE levels. Am J Hum Genet 1992;51:197-205.
5. Costerousse O, Allegrini J, Lopez M, Alhenc-Gelas E. Angiotensin I converting enzyme in human circulating mononuclear cells: genetic polymorphism of expression in T lymphocytes. Biochem J 1993;290:33-40.
6. Jacob HJ, Lindpaintner K, Lincoln SE, Kusumi K, Bunker RK, Mao Y-P, et al. Genetic mapping of a gene causing hypertension in stroke prone hypertensive rats. Cell 1991;67:213-4.
7. Hilbert R, Lindpaintner K, Beckmann JS, Serikawa T, Soubrier F, Dubay C, et al. Chromosomal mapping of two genetic loci associated with blood-pressure regulation in hereditary hypertensive rats. Nature 1991;353:521-9.
8. Schmidt S, van Hooft IMS, Grobbee DE, Ganten D, Ritz E. Polymorphism of the angiotensin I-converting enzyme gene is apparently not related to high blood pressure: Dutch Hypertension and Offspring Study. J Hypertens 1993;11:345-8.
9. Jeunemaitre X, Lifton RR, Hunt SC, Williams RR, Lalounel JM. Absence of linkage between the angiotensin converting enzyme locus and human essential hypertension. Nat Genet 1992;1:72-5.
10. Hiraga H, Oshima T, Watanabe M, Ishida M, Ishida T, Shingu T, et al. Angiotensin I-converting enzyme gene polymorphism and salt sensitivity in essential hypertension. Hypertension 1996;27:569-72.
11. Kario K, Kanai N, Saito K, Nago N, Matsud T, Shimada K. Ischemic stroke and gene for angiotensin-converting enzyme in Japanese hypertensives. Circulation 1996;93:1630-3.
12. Scheie HG. Evaluation of opthalmoscopic changes of hypertension and arteriolarsclerosis. Arch Ophthal 1953;49:117-38.
13. Sahn DJ, DeMaria A, Kisslo J, Weyman A. Recommendations regarding quantification in M-mode echocardiography: results of a survey of echocardiographic measurements. Circulation 1978;58:1072-83.
14. Devereux RB, Reichek N. Echocardiographic determination of left ventricular mass in man: anatomic validation of the method. Circulation 1977;55:613-8.
15. Devereux RB, Lutas EM, Casale PM, Klingfield P, Eisenberg RR, Hammond IW, et al. Standardization of M-mode echocardiographic left ventricular anatomic measurement. J Am Coll Cardiol 1984;4:1222-30.
16. Rigat B, Hubert C, Corvol P, Soubrier E. PCR detection of the insertion/deletion polymorphism of the human angiotensin converting enzyme gene (DCP1). Nucleic Acids Res 1992;20:1433.
17. Kennel WB, Dauber TR. Hypertension as an ingredient of a cardiovascular risk factor. Br J Hosp Med 1974;11:508.
18. Schunkert H, Hence HW, Holmer SR, Stender M, Perz S, Keil U, et al. Association between a deletion polymorphism of the angiotensin converting enzyme gene and left ventricular hypertrophy. N Engl J Med 1994;330:1634-8.
19. Iwai N, Ohmichi N, Nakamura Y, Kinoshita M. DD genotype of angiotensin converting enzyme gene is a risk factor for left ventricular hypertrophy. Circulation 1994;90:2622-8.
20. Kupari M, Perola M, Koskinen P, Virolainen J, Karhunen PJ. Left ventricular size, mass, and function in relation to angiotensin-converting enzyme gene polymorphism in humans. Am J Physiol 1994;267:H1107-11.
21. Lindpaintner K, Lee M, Larson M, Rao VS, Pfeffer MA, Ordovas JM, et al. Absence of association of genetic linkage between the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene and left ventricular mass. N Engl J Med 1996;334:1023-8.
22. Samani NJ, Thompson JR, O'Toole L, Channer K, Woods KL. A meta-analysis of the association of the deletion allele of the angiotensin-converting enzyme gene with myocardial infarction. Circulation 1996:94:708-12.
23. Nakai K, Itoh C, Miura Y, Hotta K, Musha T, Itoh T, et al. Deletion polymorphism of the angiotensin I-converting enzyme gene is associated with serum ACE concentration and increased risk for CAD in the Japanese. Circulation 1994;90:2199-202.
24. Brilla CG, Janicki JS, Weber KT. Cardioreparative effects of lisinopril in rats with genetic hypertension and left ventricular hypertension. Circulation 1991;83:1771-9.
25. Zee RYL, Lou Y, Griffiths LR, Moris BJ. Association of a polymorphism of the angiotensin I-converting enzyme gene with essential hypertension. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1992;184:9-15.
26. Oshima T, Matsuura H, Ishibashi K, Kainouchi M, Ishida T, Ozono R, et al. Familial influence upon NaCl sensitivity in patients with essential hypertension. J Hypertens 1992;10:1089-94.