Splicing mutation of the prostacyclin synthase gene in a family associated with hypertension

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 525, Issue , 2003, Pages 165-168

  Nakayama, Tomohiro ^a   Soma, Masayoshi ^a   Watanabe, Yoshiyasu ^a   Hasimu, Buaijiaer ^a   Kanmatsuse, Katsuo ^a   Kokubun, Shinichiro ^a   Morrow, Jason D ^b   Oates, John A ^c  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTACYCLIN SYNTHASE;

ADULT; AGED; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; EXON; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRON; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; STOP CODON; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0038205528     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-9194-2_34     Document Type: Conference Paper

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