Haplotypes of the WNK1 gene associate with blood pressure variation in a severely hypertensive population from the British Genetics of Hypertension study

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 14, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1805-1814

  Newhouse, Stephen J ^a   Wallace, Chris ^a   Dobson, Richard ^a   Mein, Charles ^a   Pembroke, Janine ^a   Farrall, Martin ^b   Clayton, David ^c   Brown, Morris ^c   Samani, Nilesh ^d   Dominiczak, Anna ^e   Connell, John M ^e   Webster, John ^f   Lathrop, G Mark ^g   Caulfield, Mark ^a   Munroe, Patricia B ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^f ABERDEEN ROYAL INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

^g CENTRE NATIONAL DE GÉNOTYPAGE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN KINASE WNK1; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DATA BASE; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION; EUROPE; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; SYNDROME;

EID: 26444443132     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: 14602083     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddi187     Document Type: Article

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