Genetic variants of WNK4 in whites and African Americans with hypertension

Hypertension

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1191-1195

  Erlich, Porat M ^a   Cui, Jing ^a   Chazaro, Irmarie ^a,b   Farrer, Lindsay A ^a,b   Baldwin, Clinton T ^a   Gavras, Haralambos ^a   DeStefano, Anita L ^a,b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Genetics; Hypertension, essential; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME 17Q; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COVARIANCE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; WNK4 GENE;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; EXONS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037782086     PISSN: 0194911X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.HYP.0000070025.30572.91     Document Type: Article

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