Allelic variants in the interleukin-6 gene and essential hypertension in Japanese women

Genes and Immunity

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 115-119

  Nakajima, T ^a   Ota, N ^a   Yoshida, H ^b   Watanabe, S ^b   Suzuki, T ^b   Emi, M ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dinucleotide repeat; Essential hypertension; Interleukin 6; Nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

INTERLEUKIN 6;

AGED; ALLELE; ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

AGED; ALLELES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INTERLEUKIN-6; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE-STRANDED CONFORMATIONAL; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 0033224449     PISSN: 14664879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.gene.6363642     Document Type: Article

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