Haplotypes produced from rare variants in the promoter and coding regions of angiotensinogen contribute to variation in angiotensinogen levels

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 639-643

  Zhu, Xiaofeng ^a   Fejerman, Laura ^b   Luke, Amy ^a   Adeyemo, Adebowale ^c,d   Cooper, Richard S ^a  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

^d HOWARD UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOTENSINOGEN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; NIGERIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ANGIOTENSINOGEN; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS);

EID: 14644388859     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi060     Document Type: Article

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