Angiotensin-1-converting enzyme (ACE) plasma concentration is influenced by multiple ACE-linked quantitative trait nucleotides

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 11, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 2969-2977

  Jones, Siân ^a   Emmerson, Paul ^a   Maynard, Julie ^a   Best, Jacqueline M ^a   Jordan, Sheila ^a   Williams, Geraint T ^a   Sampson, Julian R ^a   Cheadle, Jeremy P ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; NUCLEOTIDE;

AFRICA; ALLELE; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FAMILY STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENEALOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS; UNITED KINGDOM;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; DNA; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FRANCE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; GREAT BRITAIN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI;

EID: 18744411518     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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