Association of endothelin-1 gene variant with hypertension

Hypertension

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 163-167

  Jin, Jing Ji ^a   Nakura, Jun ^a   Wu, Zhihong ^a   Yamamoto, Miyuki ^a   Abe, Michiko ^a   Tabara, Yasuharu ^a   Yamamoto, Yoshikuni ^a   Igase, Michiya ^a   Kohara, Katsuhiko ^a   Miki, Tetsuro ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Body mass index; Endothelin; Genetics; Hypertension, essential; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ASPARAGINE; ENDOTHELIN 1; LYSINE;

ADULT; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CODON; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDOTHELIUM; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; ET1 GENE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; WEIGHT GAIN;

BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY MASS INDEX; ENDOTHELIN-1; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 0037221233     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000043680.75107.CF     Document Type: Article

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