The role of Wnk4 in polygenic hypertension: A candidate gene analysis on rat chromosome 10

Hypertension

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 938-942

  Monti, Jan ^a,b   Zimdahl, Heike ^a   Schulz, Herbert ^a,c   Plehm, Ralph ^a   Ganten, Detlev ^a,c   Hübner, Norbert ^a,c  

^a MAX DELBRÜCK CENTER FOR MOLECULAR MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Genetics; Hypertension, genetic; Rats, inbred strains; Rats, stroke prone SHR

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE WNK4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CHROMOSOME 10; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXON; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOHYPOALDOSTERONISM; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPONTANEOUSLY HYPERTENSIVE RAT; STROKE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WNK4 GENE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, CONGENIC; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHROMOSOMES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY; LINKAGE (GENETICS); MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEINS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0037388270     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000063147.92433.7D     Document Type: Article

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